What makes the perfect data scientist?

Sooraj Shah
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Demand for data scientists is ballooning, but what attributes should enterprises be looking for in candidates?

When data scientists were likened to Yetis by HP’s big data solution marketing director, Dan Wood, at Computing’s Big Data Summit – it wasn’t because of their diet or breeding habits, but their rar...

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