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How to Crack Big Data & Data
Science Roles
Peeyush Taori

London Business School, AQR, AQR Asset Management

Institute, Indian School of Business

Manvender Singh
Founder, UpX Academy
MBA, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad
Agenda of Todays Infosession

Why is there buzz about Big Data, Machine Learning & Data Science

What is the future of Big Data & Data Science as a career?

Which companies are hiring for Big Data, Machine learning & Data
Science experts?

How to position yourself to crack these roles?

Interviews questions for Big Data & Data Science professionals

Info about upcoming batches

Q&A
 A quick look at some people you will meet

Peeyush Taori Manvender Singh Madhu Reddy Arun Reddy

Chief Instructor Founder Student Services Student Services
What this session is

Insights that youll not get on internet

Focused on end goal(career opportunities) not starting

point(learning big data & data science)

Understand big data & data science career opportunities across

geographies & industries

Understand how to make career transition into Big data & Data
Science

Address your questions related to career opportunities in Big data &

Data Science
What this session is not

Not an introductory session on Big Data & Data Science

Attend Big Data and Data Science trial classes

Big Data Trial class 12-1 pm Sunday 11th Sept

Data Science Trial class 1-2 pm Sunday 11th Sept
The buzz

The Sexiest job of the 21st century

#1 most wanted hires in USA in 2016

Shortage of 140k to 190k data scientists in US alone by 2018

Were moving from a mobile first world to AI first world

 How does Big Data analytics affect our daily lives?

More use cases on : http://upxacademy.com/2016/05/31/big-data-use-cases-industries/

The buzz

The Sexiest job of the 21st century

#1 most wanted hires in USA in 2016

Shortage of 140k to 190k data scientists in US alone by 2018

Were moving from a mobile first world to AI first world

 Machine learning applications
Self driving cars: Google, Baidu, Tesla
have implemented this technology.

Speech recognition: Google now,

Siri, Cortana

Genetics: Clustering algorithms are

used in genetics to help find genes
associated with a particular disease.

Face recognition: Facebook

automatically tags people in photos
where they appear.
 Major acquisitions of ML and Big Data start-ups
2016
Intel acquired AI startup Nervana
Systems for $350 million

Twitter acquired machine learning

startup Magic Pony Technology for $150
million

Apple acquired Machine-Learning

Startup Turi for $200 Million

A non-profit AI research company,

OpenAI is funded by the famous business
magnate Elon Musk
2015
Microsoft acquired Metanautix, a Big
Data Analytics company
Big Data & Data Science - Together
Fundamentally, part of same team
Big Data programming and data science go hand in hand

Firms need to deal with huge amounts of data

Storage, Computation, Coherent Data View Big Data
Analytics, Statistics, Prediction Data Science

Lets consider them in isolation for now

 Big DataWhat and Why?
Characterized by 3V
Volume
Velocity
1. 3 Exabytes data(3 billion GB) is generated every day
2. 13 million new videos are added/month on Youtube.
3. 300 million photos uploaded/day on Facebook
Variety
1. Structured, Semi-Structured, Unstructured

Data is the most valuable asset

Create insights and value
 Technology Landscape
(2004 2013) (2007 2015?) (2014 ?)

Giraph
Pregel Tez
Drill
Dremel
Mahout
Storm
Impala S4

GraphLab

General Batch Specialized General Unified Engine

Processing Systems
(iterative, interactive, ML, streaming, graph,
SQL, etc)
 Career Paths
Big Data Developer
Excel at Big Data programming
Hadoop, Pig, Hive, HBase, Spark
Big Data Engineer, Consultant, Big Data Architect

Big Data Analytics

Wear data analytics and big data programming hats
Hadoop, Spark, Statistics, Analytics, Data Science, R, Python
Big Data Analyst, Consultant, Big Data scientist
Big Data Jobs trends
Now, let us consider Data Science
Data ScienceWhat and Why?
Skills a recruiters seeks
Typical Workday of a Data Scientist
Gather data
Programming, web scraping, DB

Transform data
DB Skills, Data Manipulation, Mathematics & Stats

Data Modeling
Machine Learning, Stats, Algorithms

Data Reporting
Inference, Business Acumen, Visualization
Data Science Job Trends
 Demand across geographies
Hottest market in US and Europe currently

Demand outstrips supply

Average salary of $1,00,000 for Big Data Engineers and $1,20,000 for Data
Scientists

Similarly, 60,000 in UK

Fastest growing job sector in India

Average starting salary- INR 10 Lakhs

Salaries shoot up with skill set and experience

 Who is recruiting?
Basically, everyone!!!

Thought Leaders
Google, Facebook, Amazon

Data driven firms

Uber, Twitter, NBC, Flipkart

IT giants
Catching up to the buzz
Infosys, Cognizant, IBM, Accenture..

Data analytics focused startups/companies

Arcadia, DataHero, Walmart Labs, Mu sigma, Fractal Analytics, Flutura

Traditional Businesses
DNV, Wal-Mart, Sears, DHL
 Building a Resume
Typical CV attention time span ~ 20-30 sec

Prior Big Data/Data Science experience

Most recent (Chronological)
Project
Clear, concise articulation of responsibilities and tools used

Keep other experience to a minimum

Demonstration of Big Data/Data Science Skills

Certification
Personal projects/POC/Competitions

Finally, KISS
Keep It Simple and Short
 No prior experience?
Demonstration of certified skills takes top priority
Experience of working on Big Data/Data Science projects
Experience of distributed computing
Knowledge of fringe skills
Intra-organization
Low barriers to movement
Certification and POC puts you in spotlight
 What not to put in resume
Recruiters receive lot of CVs

Formatting and presentation matters

Many firms use keyword extractor tool

Buzzwords without knowledge is a strict no-no

Keep length to max 2 pages

 Big Data Top interview questions -
Generic
Explain Big Data technologies
Walk us through your previous Big Data project
What is Hadoop and how is it related to MapReduce
Hadoop deamons & their roles in Hadoop cluster
Explain MapReduce
Difference between Spark and Hadoop
How do I deal with Streaming data
Hive, Pig, and MapReduce
 Big Data Top Interview Questions -
Specific
Difference between Hadoop 1.0 and 2.0
Architecture of Spark
Indexing process in HDFS
HDFS Block and Input Split
Data Science Top interview questions -
Generic
Explain various Machine Learning techniques
Walk us through your recent data science project
Difference between supervised and unsupervised
Assumption for a linear regression
How do random forests work
Trade-off between classification and regression
Data Science Top Interview Questions -
Specific
How do you handle missing data
Differentiate: Lift, KPI, model fitting
Collaborative filtering, n-grams, KNN
Assumptions of LDA and QDA
Class FAQs

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Can I attend trial classes before attending?

Do I have to purchase any software?

Whats the difference between certificate of completion vs certification?

What if I miss a class?

How do I ask my doubts after the class?

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