April 5, 2024, 5:18 p.m. | Florent Pajot

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Top soft skills that should be highly valued by data scientists to distinguish themselves from the crowd

In this story, I’ll share with you my top 5 soft skills that should be highly valued by Data Scientists to distinguish themselves from the crowd. These observations are based on my experiences over the past decade, working with and managing Data Scientists.

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1. Curiosity

I won’t catch you off guard with this one (or the next), …

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Data Architect

@ University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX

Data ETL Engineer

@ University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX

Lead GNSS Data Scientist

@ Lurra Systems | Melbourne

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (MLOps)

@ Promaton | Remote, Europe

Senior Data Science Analyst- ML/DL/LLM

@ Mayo Clinic | Jacksonville, FL, United States

Machine Learning Research Scientist, Robustness and Uncertainty

@ Nuro, Inc. | Mountain View, California (HQ)