Data Mining: Where to Dig First?

In the age of abundant data, obtaining insights out of mounds of data often becomes overwhelming even for seasoned analysts. In the data-mining business, more than half of the struggle is about determining “where to dig first.”

The main job of a modern data scientist is to answer business questions for decision-makers. To do that, they have to be translators between the business world and the technology world. This in-between position often creates a great amount of confusion for aspiring data scientists, as the gaps between business challenges and the elements that makes up the answers are very wide, even with all of the toolsets that are supposedly “easy to use.”