The Mindset of a Successful Data Scientist

Four Attitudes for Success in Data Science

Chris Walsh
Towards Data Science
9 min readApr 29, 2022

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There are so many articles out there about how to become a great data scientist and they are almost entirely focused on technical skillsets or processes. But equally, if not more, important is the data scientist’s mindset. I see it time and time again — a smart person with all the right technical skills fails to succeed in a data science role because their analytical mindset is all wrong.

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