Starting your SEDS career
What fascinates me is how Social Data Science is a challenge to traditional barriers between disciplines. This is the way that I think science and technology moves faster, in a way that breaks silos and connects disciplines.
SEDS career day in June 2023
In June 2023 the AK SEDS organised the second SEDS career day. After some theoretical and professional input, students had the unique opportunity to talk directly to possible future employers in an easy-going atmosphere. As you can see on the photos below, networking is one of the most important things you can do regarding your professional career. Thank you AK SEDS for organising this special event and I hope to have another edition next year!
Competences and skills of a Data Scientist
Deriving workable hypotheses
- Understanding business requirements and translating them into technical roadmaps
- Figuring out what data are needed and what story one can tell based on the results
- Designing practical approaches of data collection, model training and selection, as well as result communication
Organizing iterative and collaborative modelling
- Breaking down complicated data science operations with smaller goals: Proof-of-concepts based on small samples, plans for model training and selection, minimal viable products (MVP), productionalization of scalable applications
- Measuring the required resources and prerequisites for a task: Navigation through complicated data systems, integration of external data, possibilities and constraints of model choices
- Distributing tasks smartly to other colleagues, code reviews, and enabling
Output communication (Data visualization, storytelling)
- How to be concise, how to deep-dive in the evidence? How to design intuitive user experiences for even non-technical clients?
- How to increase the data literacy of your colleagues and clients?
- How to communicate the results?
Knowing and designing solution architecture
- Crafting orchestration for data and machine learning / statistical model life cycle: Extracting, Transforming, and Loading (ETL), as well as model training, tuning, selection, and serving
- Gaining proficiencies in advanced data engineering and machine learning engineering tools / frameworks
- Collaborating with other developers (backend, frontend, infrastructure, security etc.) with good practices in DevOps
SEDS specific profile
Within the interdisciplinary framework of the SEDS program, students have the unique opportunity to shape their individual competence profile, fully based on their interests and future perspectives.
Career Prospects & Individual Career Paths
The job profile "Data Analysts and Scientists" is listed as number 1 of the Top 10 emerging jobs with a growing job demand for the year 2025. Source: Future of Jobs Report of the World Economic Forum.
Our students and alumni are pursuing very individual career paths. They are expected to assume multiple roles in an organization. For example, they work as data scientists, data engineers, machine learning engineers, data analysts, BI specialists, etc.
What is cyberLAGO?
cyberLAGO is the network of digital experts in the international Lake Constance region and the central point of contact for all questions relating to digitization, digital transformation and IT.
We are continuously working on fostering the cooperation with the network in order to offer our students best conditions for an easy career start in the region.
cyberTALENTS' Stage in January 2024
In January together with cyberLAGO we organized the first 'cyberTALENTS' Stage'. Four SEDS students presented their own projects, described their approaches and spoke about their personal experiences and learning outcomes. Companies gained an impression of the skills students develop during their studies. In the end, 15 companies of the Lake Constance region were brought together with 15 SEDS students, sharing common interests about future cooperations.
