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        How to decide whether you need a full-time data scientist, the core tasks of a data scientist, and how machine learning can make big data analytics more effective.
        
			- By Quint Turner
- September 27, 2016
Hiring a specialized data scientist should not be done blindly. This article asks the important question of whether your enterprise truly needs a full-time data scientist.
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This article provides a first-person perspective on the core tasks of a real data scientist.
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This article claims that traditional analytics may be too slow to work with big data. It explains how to get started with machine learning to boost your analytics strategy.
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                    About the Author
                    
                
                    
                    
Quint Turner is an editorial intern at TDWI and an undergraduate English student at Skidmore College. Follow his blog at pungry.com.