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    Top skills needed to break into a career in data science

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    Tongston is a multi-award-winning group focused on entrepreneurial education, enterprise, finance and media leveraging technology to turn people, governments and institutions into valuable, influential and profitable entities.
    Check out our latest entry in our Entrepreneurial Blog sharing with you amazing insights on enterprise, education, media and finance globally, premised on entrepreneurial thinking.
    Introduction

    The objective of this article is to provide a guide for you on the skills needed for a successful career path as a data scientist, questions like How can I break into this career? How do I get started? How relevant are these skills? What are their importance? and Must all be attained before I can become a certified data scientist? Will be answered in this article. Do have a good read!


    Table Of Contents


    ● Who is a data scientist?
    ● Career opportunities in data science
    ● Top skills to break into a career in data science
    ● How to get started
    ● Conclusion

    Who is a data scientist?


    This is the big question every data science enthusiast wants to know. Knowing what a career path entails before trending helps to sharpen the bit-by-bit step to achieving a goal. It isn’t ideal if till today one still mistakes a data analyst for a data scientist, well after the introduction, I am such a person who will have more understanding of
    who a data scientist is. A data scientist is an analytics professional responsible for collecting, analysing, and interpreting data to help drive decision-making in an organisation. This is the technical meaning of data science, it isn’t limited to analyzing alone, making sense of structured, and unstructured data, building models, training models, testing models, and making meaningful and insightful decisions are all encompassed in data science.
    The data scientist’s role combines elements of technical professions, including mathematician, scientist, statistician, and computer programmer. It involves using advanced analytics techniques, such as machine learning and reductive models, along with applying scientific principles; these areas will be discussed later in this article.


    Career opportunities in data science


    The saying “ I am a Data scientist” is for the generality of the profession as there are different areas of focus data science is embedded with, and an individual needs to focus on at least one of them, below is a list of some of these careers.
    ● Data Engineer click Here for further reading
    ● Business Intelligence (BI) Developer click Here for further reading
    ● Machine Learning Scientist click Here for further reading
    ● Data Scientist click Here for further reading
    ● Machine Learning Engineer click Here for further reading
    ● Applications Architect Click Here for further reading
    ● Data Analyst Click Here for further reading

    Top skills to break into a career in data science


    The skills needed to break into a career in data science or thrive in the data science career path are grouped into two basically:

    Technical Skills: These are the needed skills for carrying out the core task of a data scientist, technical skills in a nutshell are the programming skills. This is also segmented as different software has different purposes, below is its segment:

    ● Analytics Programming Skill: Python, R, C, C++, Java, and SQL
    ● Analytics Software Skill: Excel, SAS, and SPSS
    ● Data Visualization: Tableau, and PowerBi
    ● Artificial Intelligent (AI): Neural networks, Natural language processing (NLP), Reinforcement learning, and Computer vision.
    Non-Technical Skills: These skills complement the non-technical skills, they are very important and if found wanting in a data scientist, such a data scientist is a half-baked one. These skills help us understand your thesis better, it grooms the analytical skills and helps in reporting. Below are the non-technical skills:
    ● Communication Skill: Writing, speaking, reading, and Listening.
    ● Presentation Skill
    ● Project Collaboration
    ● Teamwork
    ● Work ethics


    How to get started


    You can start your data science journey with Tongston’s Introduction to data science product, the course has all it takes to get you started, for enquiry check out our website www.tongston.com and subscribe to our newsletter.


    Conclusion


    I hope you had a good read. The article has been able to enlighten the reader on what data science is, the career opportunities in data science, the top skills needed, and how to get started.


    Watch out for our next Data science Insight only on Tongston Entrepreneurial Blog every Thursday!

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    DIGITAL LIBRARY— Definition and Misconception

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    DIGITAL LIBRARY— Definition and Misconception


    Dear Readers,
    Tongston is a multi-award-winning group focused on entrepreneurial education, enterprise, finance and media leveraging on technology to turn people, governments and institutions into valuable, influential and profitable entities.


    Check out our latest entry in our Entrepreneurial Blog sharing with you amazing insights on enterprise, education, media and finance globally, premised on entrepreneurial thinking.


    INTRODUCTION

    A digital library, also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, or a digital collection is an online database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video,
    digital documents, or other digital media formats or a library accessible through the internet.
    Objects can consist of digitized content like print or photographs, as well as originally produced digital content like word processor files or social media posts. In addition to storing content, digital libraries provide means for organizing, searching, and retrieving the content contained in the collection (Wikipedia).

    The concept of a “digital library” is not merely equivalent to a digitized collection with information management tools. It is rather an ENVIRONMENT to bring together collections, services, and
    people in support of the full life cycle of creation, dissemination, use, and preservation of data, information, and knowledge.

    The internet indeed offers an exhaustive range of reading materials all for free. However, it is not a complete or organized reading system that has inbuilt features that facilitate learning. It does give you the right exposure as it is not made to pull relevant and premium books that one should read for studying a subject. The search engines are only trained to crawl through the database and present information that is nearly relevant to what you are searching for.

    However, digital libraries are built to offer course relevant premium as well as free or informative materials for reading. Digital Libraries help students access educational books that adhere to the syllabus
    and read and re-read them for study.


    Association of Research Libraries has identified the following five elements in various definitions of the digital libraries:

    1.The digital library is not a single entity;
    2.The digital library requires technology to link the resources of many
    3.The linkages between the many digital libraries and information services are transparent to
    the end users;
    4.Universal access to digital libraries and information services is a goal;
    5.Digital library collections are not limited to document surrogates: they extend to digital artefacts that cannot be represented or distributed in printed formats.

    Features of a digital library:
    ● Variety of digital information resources
    ● Digital Libraries Reduce the need for physical space
    ● Users at remote
    ● Users may build their own personal collections by the facilities provided by Digital Library
    ● Provide access to distributed information resources
    ● Same information resource can be shared by many at the same time
    ● Paradigm shift both in use and ownership
    ● Collection development be based on potential usefulness and appropriate filtering mechanisms be followed to negotiate the problem of plenty
    ● Ability to handle multilingual content

    Misconceptions of Digital Library

    Misconception: The Internet is the digital library
    The concepts of organization and selection separate digital libraries from the Internet as a whole. Locating information on the internet remains highly inefficient especially for unfamiliar users, the quality of the information is quite variable, and sometimes unreliable.
    On the other hand, information in a digital library has been organized in some manner to provide the resource collection, cataloging, and service functions of a traditional library.

    In addition, the resources in digital libraries have gone through some sort of formal selection process based on clear criteria, such as including only resources that come from original materials or authoritative sources. Digital libraries are thus an effort to address the problem of information overload often associated with the Internet.
    Schools and organizations must therefore develop a digital library encompassing all the five elements of a model digital library as documented by the Association of Research Libraries.

    Join our Thinkers Network to get access to curated resources for your personal, business and professional development. At Tongston, we build valuable, profitable and influential people, governments, businesses & Non-profits.
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    ● Entrepreneurial education for primary, secondary, tertiary, and post-tertiary levels through Tongston Institute and College;
    ● Business development, advisory, capital and asset management through Tongston Ventures;
    ● Access to multimedia services through Tongston Media; and
    ● Technology, data, research, accounting, treasury, legal, governance, strategy, HR and administration services through the parent company, Tongston Holdings.

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    SELF EDUCATION: THE PROCESS OF LIFELONG LEARNING

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    SELF EDUCATION: THE PROCESS OF LIFELONG LEARNING

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    Tongston is a multi-award-winning group focused on entrepreneurial education, enterprise, finance and media leveraging on technology to turn people, governments and institutions into
    valuable, influential and profitable entities.
    Check out our latest entry in our Entrepreneurial Blog sharing with you amazing insights on enterprise, education, media and finance globally, premised on entrepreneurial thinking.

    Introduction

    It was believed that to have a successful career, one must Study hard at School, Enter a good University and Graduate with good Grades. This old ideology for a successful career, where formal education was the main ingredient, no longer works. By the time students receive their bachelor’s or master’s degree, it is very possible that their
    profession will have become irrelevant. Also, there may be a problem of skills mismatch—where the skills do not meet the demand of the employer or society even with a university education.

    The old recipe for a successful career, where formal education was the main ingredient, no longer works. It is time to search for new ways.
    People therefore need to learn:
    •Essential life skills
    •Systems that are adaptable to new market
    •Personal qualities
    That is why it is no longer so important whether you studied at university at all or how many degrees you have. What really matters is whether you have the skills (Supply) that can meet the demands of the modern market.

    PERSONAL/CAREER DEVELOPMENT RECIPE

    Building and developing a career today is like developing an enterprise. There is too much information around us, which means that one can never have enough of it. The world is a dynamic place which means we constantly need to adapt and Continuous learning is the key to adaptation which include the need to master skills that will help you expand your horizons, get new perspectives and opportunities. These are skills and knowledge will:
    ▶ allow you to adapt to constantly changing conditions, such as creativity and entrepreneurial skills
    ▶ help you simplify complex systems, such as design skills, systems, and design thinking
    ▶ allow you adapt to communication technologies: for example, research skills and the ability to process information, digital skills, media literacy.

    The development of new skills should be approached systematically.

    Step 1: Chart your future path. What do you want to be? Then Make a list of skills that you need and want to learn.

    Step 2: Determine what is important to you at that time. Is it personal or professional? Usually, each skill helps you to solve one of these objectives. Determine which skills help you progress in the direction that matters to you most.

    Step 3: Assess how easy it would be to learn the skill that you are interested in—you may have an aptitude for this particular task or there may be a huge discount on courses that you have been thinking about taking for a long time?

    Perhaps your friends or colleagues are already doing whatever it is you are interested in and will help you take your first steps in this new undertaking.

    Step 4: Determine if you have enough resources (time, energy and money) to learn something new.
    It is better to learn gradually but regularly, rather than rarely, but trying to absorb huge chunks of information that you simply can’t comprehend altogether.

    CREATING YOUR SELF-EDUCATION SYSTEM

    Investing in yourself is one of the most profitable decisions you will ever make. After all, a personal resource will never depreciate. Your skills, experience, and knowledge cannot be stolen or used in any way other than to your advantage. When you have your own self-education system, it automatically helps increase your learning speed and the volume of information you can absorb.
    Your personal development must be systematic for it to be effective. You need to determine your learning strategy in advance. 

    Formal education will enable you to secure a paycheck, self-education will make you a fortune —Eric Worre

    .
    Self education is at the heart of what Tongston promotes. Infact, Tongston’s education services are built on the following pillars:
    – Lifelong Learning
    – Story-driven Project based Learning (the story being yours)
    – Experiential Learning
    – Personalized / Self-driven Learning
    – Entrepreneurial Thinking-based Learning (delivering learning to enable you become valuable, influential and profitable)
    The Tongston Entrepreneurial Education Course (TIEEC) provides a platform to achieve just this!
    With TIEEC, Educators, Professionals, Entrepreneurs & Students achieve increased value, influence & profit in their profession, business or academics.
    TIEEC leads to increased business knowledge, increased income, enhanced recognition, mindset change, better learning outcomes & performance of students (for educators), improvement in academic, soft, work, 21st century & technical skills & career change.

    Benefits

    ● Gain soft, academic, 21st century, work skills to become a more effective & impactful
    educator, entrepreneur, professional or student
    ● Builds capacity of participants to start/scale businesses & increase business value
    ● Increased income & positive career change
    ● Better student performance and improved educator classroom delivery, for educators
    ● Enables you to think, create and sell your ideas
    ● Access world-class global network of entrepreneurial thinkers
    ● Fosters collaborative learning and accelerates personal growth
    ● Access Tongston’s products & services in media, finance & enterprise e.g. funding for MSMEs, Entrepreneurial CV & pitch deck clinic, personal branding, entrepreneurial hub services
    ● Opportunities to pitch yourself/your businesses during TEES 2023 to a global audience in 54 countries
    ● Experiential and live Synchronous Learning Sign up today.

    At Tongston, we build valuable, profitable and influential people, governments, businesses & non-profits.
    How? Check out one of Tongston’s products and services range from
    ● Entrepreneurial education for primary, secondary, tertiary, and post-tertiary levels through Tongston Institute and College;
    ● Business development, advisory, capital and asset management through Tongston Ventures;
    ● Access to multimedia services through Tongston Media; and
    ● Technology, data, research, accounting, treasury, legal, governance, strategy, HR and administration services through the parent company, Tongston Holdings.
    And find out today!
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