Being Trained Is Not the Same as Being Competent

Clearly, we only want people who are competent being responsible for work that we rely on. This is true across fields, but certainly holds for analytics and data science. The newer a field is and the faster it is growing, the easier it is for the lines between “trained” and “competent” to become blurred. This is a concern today in the world of data science and analytics.

What Does It Mean to Be Trained?

Getting trained in something new is easy these days. Not only are there traditional classes ...