The document discusses the core skills needed for a career in data science. It states that 70% of the work involves data wrangling such as cleaning and organizing data. Strong verbal and visual communication skills are also important, making up 15% and 10% respectively. Technical skills themselves only account for 5% of the work. The document advocates that data scientists should be generalists with strong communication abilities and make time for their personal interests.

1. Unicorns aren’t real
Lucy Knight
Food Standards Agency
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4. What do data scientists do, anyway?

13. What are the core data science skills?

14. Data wrangling - 70%
Verbal communication - 15%
Visual communication - 10%
Actual technical nerd stuff - 5%
What are the core data science skills?

18. ● Generalists are awesome
● Communication matters
● Make room for the things
you love doing