From the course: The Data Science of Nonprofit Service Organizations, with Barton Poulson

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Careers for data scientists in nonprofits

Careers for data scientists in nonprofits

From the course: The Data Science of Nonprofit Service Organizations, with Barton Poulson

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Careers for data scientists in nonprofits

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- [Instructor] So now that you a little more about how data science works in nonprofits, maybe you'd actually like to put it into practice, maybe even in fact get a job doing this. Well, there's a few things you need if you want this to work well, but they're simple things. Number one is you need some kind of data science qualifications. You also need some practical experience working on data science projects, and you need to have the professional connections that can ultimately lead to the kind of job that you're looking for. Now this may be overwhelming, but let's break each of these down into separate pieces. First let's talk about data science qualifications. Now you may recognize this, it's the data science Venn diagram that was first created by Drew Conway. And the idea here is that data science consists of three separate domains put together. Those are hacking skills, that's just computer programming, the ability to work with the data, gather the data. The next is math and…

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