The most important skills of data scientists | Jose Miguel Cansado | TEDxIEMadrid

How big data starts to drive the world, and what kind of skills will you need to interpret it?
General Director of Alto Data Analytics, Jose Miguel Cansado, has developed his international career in IMB Watson and Alcatel-Lucent, including eight years in pacific Asia as Head of Multimedia and Mobile Communications. He is a telecommunication engineer and holds a master’s in marketing from INSEAD, as well as executive MBA from IE Business School.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@simoncharwey8513]

The conclusion inspired me - "Big data needs big brains; big data needs the curious brains of an artist to make a difference." - Jose Miguel Cansado

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[@junevincentmanuelsincogaud2059]

The conclusion was gold.

[@lotus___freedom]

I happen to be one❣🙂

[@saniyapadmanabhan]

True though !

[@sahalapanjaitan6473]

what kind of difrence? nowdays analysis can be done by ai. And some one who just start need to compete with seniors and ai. what do he need to prepare?

[@mustafabohra2070]

Loved it.... Curiosity for emotions drives empathy, Curiosity for ideas drives imagination Curiosity for solutions drives creativity Curiosity for the influence drives communication Curiosity for results drives the leadership!!

[@BiancaAguglia]

Same here.

[@mochhisyamtanzil9741]

At first I though the most important skills for data scientist is math, and computer science. But after working for 5 months as business intelligence (almost the same as data science) I realize that there is a lot of skills needed to be a good data scientist more than math and CS. Asking the right question, empathy, and creativity is very important in problem solving. What He is said is true

[@ayayusuf4366]

Can you talk more about this

[@gowtham0101]

Is your company hiring

[@maybelive765]

Empathy is cringe. Feelings < Facts

[@johnwig285]

​@@maybelive765you are cringe. Empathy literally explains the facts. For instance, when we carry out market basket analysis, u arrive to a set of rules. These are facts. So what? Facts without understanding why it is as such, is useless. That's where empathy comes in, u understand ur customers, why they buy so & so etc.

[@BiancaAguglia]

Great speech. Curiosity and empathy ARE the characteristics of a great data scientist. 😊

[@kwanpakshing]

From so many different speakers / videos I've watched, I came to realize that , daring curiosity is the fundamental drive to everything that differentiate yourself from the crowd and AI. But sadly , curiosity is difficult be trained or learned. it often comes inherently as a character and will remain as a character , though this character can be incredibly fragile to be destroyed in normal education systems filled with exams and tests.

[@shivampurbia6169]

One can't train someone to have a Good character or to have curiosity that's something you have to create within yourself

[@FakeAccount]

It's hard to explain, but nothing is created, everything you see that you think of as an inspiration and something creative was actually inspired by something else. Creativity doesn't come from nothing, it's a product of being inspired by other people and reinterpret it as an idea

[@Daniela-fn8or]

I love this Francis, you are so right.

[@deogratiasmodestbaraka5355]

TAKE A BEER WHEREVER YOU ARE, YOU'VE SPOKEN SENSE. THIS IS FACTUAL!

[@IvanE1990]

I'm sorry I think you are wrong. Curiosity can be trained and learned. It is about knowledge of what there is in the world, and actively thinking about new posibilities and problems. Is about working towards the concept of the "adjacent possible".

[@simon6248]

Good speech to link humanity into technology.

[@BlackJar72]

Looking at machine learning from a background in cognitive neuroscience it seems to me that we are using more intuition than ever before -- neural net AIs are better thought of as artificial intuition rather than artificial intelligence. This is not playing them down, its an amazing advancement, intuition being something we once thought machines could not have, yet now we can have a machine develop a centuries worth of intuition on a specific problem type in a mater of days. We've moved from machines as only as external muscles to machines as external brain areas capable of learning intuitive pattern recognition we don't have brain areas specifically dedicated to. Still, despite all this and the completely different mathematics it often acts like little more than a glorified (and in many cases misled) correlation function, still needing interpretation from our internal brains.

[@BiancaAguglia]

@Jared Blackburn Interesting point of view. 😊 I agree that AI shouldn't be thought of as Artificial Intelligence. For me, even artificial intuition is too much of a misnomer. I prefer calling it algorithmic iterations. AI is nothing more that a super fast computing machine for finding the correlation functions you mentioned. There is no intelligence on its part though. No intuition. No ability to put inputs, outputs, and algorithms in context. All the learning is done by humans. So, I'm not impressed by AI's intelligence 😊, but I'm glad we have AI. Despite its undeserved hype and its limitations, it is an incredibly powerful tool.

[@indrajeet5000]

@@BiancaAguglia yours and Jared's views have given me more insight than the Ted talk itself. Thank you both.

[@jimbiddle]

Great talk! Thank you!

[@Gthrylos]

This guy talks like a poet. Great talk!!!

[@kishanchauhan6883]

One of the most inspiring video i ever seen.

[@alitanwir3372]

Great talk !

[@jaye4071207]

powerful!

[@ashusharma9439]

Asking the right questions to data

[@hearticyandi469]

thank you for this

[@manish12456]

Thanks for your valuable feedback and suggestions in data science and management.

[@chocky_1874]

Loved it ,Tnq💟

[@franrub9234]

Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[@ayayusuf4366]

Hey there I'm a biomedical engineer and I am really interested in this

[@MotivationStation275]

Hello I'm a data analyst, I would like to work with you

[@DustinMillerPolyInnovator]

Utterly fantastic. I've always held an entrepreneurial spirit, and I have the mindset of a polymath. Ironically my prime idol in life is Leonardo Da Vinci (before I was born my mom almost named me Leonardo), ever since I was a kid.

[@ROTTERDXM]

I see you are also a very humble person!

[@Bill0102]

I can't believe how great this is! I recently read a similar book, and it was absolutely incredible. "Game Theory and the Pursuit of Algorithmic Fairness" by Jack Frostwell

[@ABeardedDad]

I don't know whether to be inspired or terrified.

[@roxaneforghani4296]

Holy curiosity ❤️

[@alomgirkabir8612]

Great Speech Man :) Like it

[@karishma98]

Curiosity ❤

[@volare2013]

who would imagine data scientist in lab coats?!

[@marinevin8562]

me

[@marinevin8562]

with goggles, gloves, and microscope.

[@leongrden8112]

i imagined myself in the future sitting at my desk xd

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[@perliva]

Leonardo da Vinci? That’s pretty steep.

[@poisonqueen9881]

Sir , is masters in data science us useful or not???

[@datatalkes4849]

Bhk Bhosari ka

[@SuperBhavanishankar]

useful if you have enough money, i dont have money so i learn through internet and its pretty cool

[@yosingh7479]

Why data science require skills in R and python programming only ? Any one knows..plz answer

[@midnightwatchman1]

You can do data science really in any computer language really R have optimisation for statistics and matrixes manipulation and python is an easy language to learn especially for people who might be just learning to program and plus there are prebuilt modules ( libraries) you can import implement some data functions. python gets you up and running fairly quickly without have to learn too much about computers :)

[@jordimontserrat4455]

Yo Singh R and Python are the two big whales on statistic and matching learning programation.

[@Sparky579]

Lol who says you they only prefer Skills in R and Python . Any language can work but R and Python are widely used bc they sre designed in that manner towards data interaction

[@eugeneibanez]

Don't waste your time with any response exclusive to soaking up some game so you can play better.

[@pizi87]

this made it to Ted?

[@cristiansteeple]

No it didn´t. This is Tedx, quite different.

[@nosicelonosiejikumlambo8323]

I need a mentor. I want to transition to data sciences.

[@nathancarranza9860]

I'm last lol.

[@abhimanyukarkara4218]

I'm a data analyst myself and I imagined the guy in a lab coat. 😅

[@shantanumaitra8192]

I am an AVERAGE 17 year old boy will i be able to handle this job?

[@BiancaAguglia]

Absolutely! Kids nowadays have access to the same resources that adults do. Plus, many times, young people are very motivated to work on something that makes a difference. Some adults lose that motivation because life has tripped them too often. 😊 Find a project you're interested in. Learn a little each day, work a lot at applying what you learn. You'll amaze yourself how far you can go if you don't allow yourself to give up. Also, connect with other people. It's good to be part of community that has the same interests as you do. Best wishes to you.

[@masterchief1520]

only if you can keep secrets.

[@gordontang7837]

science thanks. I regret wasting time before but you're right, I still have time by my side and I'm only 18.

[@christian.mar.garcia]

Francisco Cevallos you clearly suffer from a lack of curiosity. It is evident he is not an English native speaker, so you can try empathy which is another skill you need.

[@ElatedHanabi]

No, it is the presenter who needs to improve his public speaking skill to cater to the audience, including but not limited to accent reduction. I also agree with other comments that this talk has little substance.

[@julioguzmanrodriguez8734]

So you need to be a native speaker like Trump to say interesting and commonsensical things. Better improving reasoning than accent

[@ElatedHanabi]

@@julioguzmanrodriguez8734 "Not native" means that he needs to improve accent, not that he needs to be a native speaker. It seems that you are being sensitive to "accent".

[@julioguzmanrodriguez8734]

Joey Wang He is making an effort and passing his message across. I wonder how the majority of English “native speakers” would perform in a foreign language. Judge people on their merits nor on their accent. Or put it differently, don’t see the mote in your brother’s eye....

[@ianclough4117]

another sales pitch. More educational talks not intellectuals trying to sell thier goods.

[@gordontang7837]

I thought it had pretty good insight. I never saw how "curiosity" can be viewed as the root of other valued traits.

[@nanasophia6242]

Hello fellow GenGiGih Batch 2 🤭

[@cromi4194]

Python

[@gregg6077]

Fifth

[@julioguzmanrodriguez8734]

Come on, it is the substance not the accent what matters. I fail to see empathy in what Tumps says despite his NY accent

[@sairam332]

generic stuff!!...no point in this talk

[@franciscocevallos5084]

This is a nice topic but the way this guy talks seems slow,I don't think I can continue finishing this video,I am sleepy

[@indyvidual3917]

Francisco Cevallos Whenever I run into a YT video of some talking too slowly for my liking, I go to settings a put the playback speed at 1.5x or 2x lol ☺️

[@tientrinh7708]

@@indyvidual3917 Wow, this is a good idea when i saw this video LOL

[@nandagopalnv3756]

First

[@KimmoHintikka]

Last...

[@shadley000]

Talks slow and says nothing. 10 minutes wasted

[@alitanwir3372]

You clearly don't know what he's talking about, right ?

[@francescagiordano7183]

What about imagining a WOMAN data scientist?

[@BiancaAguglia]

What about imagining a child as a data scientist? 😊 I just saw Data Science classes being offered for high school students, and watched a KZbin video about writing Data Science books for 6 to 10 year olds. Maybe in the not so distant future we'll have our pets do Data Science also. 😊

[@IsaacNickaein]

It's a figure of speech.

[@ondiola]

nel team di Kaggle, giusto per fare un esempio, ci sono tantissime donne. Quindi non c'è alcun bisogno di immaginare le donne data scientist... Esistono già, e sono tante. Tutto questo nel mentre che scrivi queste coglionate per strappare qualche like.

[@anshisingh1915]

His accent is pain 😭

[@harpreetgaur1]

Tf? Your takeaway from this was Accent ...

[@anshisingh1915]

@@harpreetgaur1 his accent was quite annoying so I wasn't actually capable of watching the whole video... Obviously i wanted to see it but the accent 😖 there are other videos too relating big data so that helped me and some great comments gave me the key points so there was no loss ! But his accent is a pain 😑

[@adeoyeoladipupoibrahim3066]

@@anshisingh1915 you know nothing jon snow

[@belxym]

I like his accent ❤