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What Makes Someone Data Scientist ? skills for data scientist ?

What Makes Someone Data Scientist ? "Everybody loves data Scientist ", Wrote  Simon  Rogers(2012) in the Guardian. Mr.Rogers also  tracedthe new found love for numbers crunching to  a   quote by Google's Hal Varian, who declared that  "the  sexyjob in the next ten years will be  statistician." whereas Hal Varitian named statistician sexy, it is believed that what he really meant were data Scientists. This raise several important questions: What is data Science? How does it differ from statistics what makes someone data scientist In the times of Big data, a question as simple as, "what is data science?" can result in many answers ,In some cases The diversity of opinions on these answers borders on hostility. I define data scientist as someone who finds solutions to problems by analyzing big or small data using appropriate tools and then tells stories to communicate her findings to the relevant stakeholders. I define...