From data scientist to statistician
37 of the 50 essential skills of a statistician are already essential for a data scientist — about 74% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from data scientist in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 37
- skills carry over
- 13
- would be new
- 74%
- of the target job covered
- 50
- essential skills of a statistician
What a statistician does
Statisticians collect, tabulate, and, most importantly, analyse quantitative information coming from a varied array of fields. They interpret and analyse statistical studies on fields such as health, demographics, finance, business, etc. and advise based on patterns and drawn analysis.
What carries over
37 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- conduct research across disciplines
- data ethics
- data science
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- evaluate research activities
- execute analytical mathematical calculations
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- integrate gender dimension in research
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- mathematical modelling
- mentor individuals
- operate open source software
- perform project management
- perform scientific research
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- quantitative analysis
- scientific literature
- speak different languages
- statistical modeling techniques
- statistics
- synthesise information
- think abstractly
- write scientific publications
What would be new
13 skillsEssential for a statistician and not for a data scientist. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- apply scientific methods
- apply statistical analysis techniques
- conduct quantitative research
- data quality assessment
- digital data processing
- gather data
- identify statistical patterns
- mathematics
- perform data analysis
- process data
- research design
- scientific research methodology
- statistical analysis system software
Other moves from data scientist
2 roles- demographer34 skills in common
- physicist33 skills in common
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