5 Habits Senior Data Scientists Use to Boost Their Productivity

Apply these practices at every step of your data science projects

Khouloud El Alami
Towards Data Science

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You’re here because you’re a data scientist looking to take your game to the next level.

It’s not technical or soft skills. No, you already know all about that.

What you’re looking for is a special upgrade. You know, like when Mario goes wild high from that mushroom juice.

Well, guess what? I’ve got just the thing for you!!

I’ve started my data science career at Spotify as a mini Mario playing in the league of the big data science Super Luigis *praying to God you get the ref*.

And working closely with them made me realize one thing:

Success as a data scientist is greatly determined by your ability to carve out an environment conducive to success.

It’s the key power-up that’ll make you go vroom to your Super self!

And it’s your lucky day today because I’m about to share with you five valuable practices I learned from senior data scientists at Spotify.

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This article was exactly what I needed. Thanks for the practical tips!

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Excellent review of what the current market is like in Data Science. Thank you for sharing your experiences. They are very insightful as well as inspiring. That’s what mentoring and “giving back” is all about. Kudos to people like you!!

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Great to read it. Every advice in the article is crucially important at every level of data scientist. I hope many candidates finds this at the begging of their career path. Thanks

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