{"id":3222,"date":"2014-01-31T20:56:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T20:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=3222"},"modified":"2014-01-31T20:56:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T20:56:23","slug":"why-soft-skills-matter-in-data-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/why-soft-skills-matter-in-data-science\/3222\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Soft Skills Matter in Data Science"},"content":{"rendered":"I\u2019d like to offer up some thoughts about what it means to practice data science in the real world, because merely knowing the math isn\u2019t enough. Anyone who knows me well knows that I\u2019m not the sharpest knife in the drawer. My quantitative skills are middling, but I\u2019ve seen folks much smarter than me fail mightily at working as analytics professionals. The problem is that while they\u2019re brilliant, they don\u2019t know the little things that can cause technical endeavors to fail within the business environment. So let\u2019s cover these softer items that can mean the success or failure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/why-soft-skills-matter-in-data-science\/3222\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d like to offer up some thoughts about what it means to practice data science in the real world, because merely knowing the math isn\u2019t enough. Anyone who knows me well knows that I\u2019m not the sharpest knife in the drawer. My quantitative skills are middling, but I\u2019ve seen folks much smarter than me fail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[166,295,296],"class_list":["post-3222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-data-science","tag-project-management","tag-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3224,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions\/3224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}