List of Figures

Chapter 1. What is data science?

Figure 1.1. The skills that combine to make data science and how they combine to make different roles

Chapter 3. Getting the skills

Figure 3.1. Flow of deciding which data science education route to take

Chapter 4. Building a portfolio

Figure 4.1. The flow of creating a data science project

Figure 4.2. Sample output of the offensive license plate generator neural network

Chapter 5. The search: Identifying the right job for you

Figure 5.1. Some job titles that don’t include “data science” that you may find when searching

Chapter 6. The application: Résumés and cover letters

Figure 6.1. Example résumé for an aspiring data scientist

Figure 6.2. An example cover letter with highlights showing the different components

Chapter 7. The interview: What to expect and how to handle it

Figure 7.1. The four steps of the interview process

Chapter 9. The first months on the job

Figure 9.1. Onboarding at a large organization is like going through a factory line, while a small company is more ad hoc. (Twitter Emojis from the Twemoji project)

Chapter 10. Making an effective analysis

Figure 10.1. An example slide of an analysis PowerPoint deck

Figure 10.2. The process of answering a business question with data science, devised by Renee Teate

Figure 10.3. An example analysis plan

Figure 10.4. An example summary table

Figure 10.5. Example of a visualization made during an analysis before cleaning

Figure 10.6. The same data as figure 10.5, plotted to highlight the importance of the letter T

Chapter 11. Deploying a model into production

Figure 11.1. Example process of creating a production machine learning product

Chapter 12. Working with stakeholders

Figure 12.1. Types of stakeholders covered in this section

Chapter 13. When your data science project fails

Figure 13.1. Two metaphors for data science: architecture and treasure-hunting

Chapter 14. Joining the data science community

Figure 14.1. Some ways to join the community that are covered in this chapter

Chapter 16. Moving up the ladder

Figure 16.1. The paths in this chapter