Senior Data Scientist (PDF)

Getting The SDS™ - A Preview of the Certification Process

THE DIGITALLY BADGED SDS ™

There are six distinct stages of your journey toward becoming an SDS™ . Here's what
these stages look like. Of course, we've just tried to take you through a quick tour, so
many of the details may be missing. You may Contact Us for more information.

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Program Pre-requisites

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TAKING THE SDS
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SDS ™
CERTIFl CATION
PREPARATION
MATERIAL

The learning scope, requirements, and rigor of the SDS™ program
necessitates that individuals intending to undergo the program have a
prior, strong formal exposure and knowledge of the basic concepts in
Statistics, and are hand-on with the tools and techniques of handling
problems of calculating central tendencies; dispersions and averages;
permutations and combinations; probability; creating graphs, charts,
histograms, and scatter plots.
Indeed, SDS™ aspirants should be also necessarily comfortable with
handling databases and spreadsheets. Advanced knowledge of Statistical
Analysis techniques and tools; exposure to analytics platforms like SPSS/
SAS; basic exposure to R; quantitative methods; fundamentals of object
oriented programming and RDBMS; good exposure to working on
popular/ common Big Data programming and analytics platforms etc.