Skills of a Chief Data Officer
Data Science
Industry Domain Knowledge
Data Science
Clear understanding of statistical concepts like statistical significance, Inferential statistics, null hypothesis, etc and can implement Machine Learning techniques to solve a prediction problem.
Understands techniques of mining large amounts of unstructured data.
Coding
Industry Domain Knowledge
Data Science
Coding experience.
Preferably in a data science language like
R or Python.
This separates the CDO from a generalist.
Industry Domain Knowledge
Industry Domain Knowledge
Industry Domain Knowledge
Can communicate and understand domain experts (e.g. telecommunication services). Since the CDO has to formulate strategies for feature engineering of datasets, domain knowledge of the operations and core business is extremely important.