{"id":14663,"date":"2016-03-18T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insidebigdata.com\/?p=14663"},"modified":"2016-03-17T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T17:23:00","slug":"becoming-a-data-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidebigdata.com\/2016\/03\/18\/becoming-a-data-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming a Data Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a compelling interview with data scientist Will Kurt, courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.becomingadatascientist.com\" target=\"_blank\">Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast<\/a> series. Kurt talks about his path from English &amp; Literature and Library &amp; Information Science degrees to becoming the Lead Data Scientist at KISSmetrics. He also tells us about his probability blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countbayesie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Count Bayesie.<\/a> Will has some great advice for people learning data science!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_97767\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jtdp_1ONy-E?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Sign up for the free insideBIGDATA\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/insidebigdata.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\">newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a compelling interview with data scientist Will Kurt, courtesy of the Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast series. 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