# Competences — data scientist

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/258e46f9-0075-4a2e-adae-1ff0477e0f30).

## Essential

- **apply for research funding** (skill/competence)
- **apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities** (skill/competence)
- **build recommender systems** (skill/competence)
- **collect ICT data** (skill/competence)
- **communicate with a non-scientific audience** (skill/competence)
- **conduct research across disciplines** (skill/competence)
- **data engineering** (knowledge)
- **data ethics** (knowledge)
- **data mining** (knowledge)
- **data models** (knowledge)
- **data science** (knowledge)
- **data visualisation software** (knowledge)
- **deliver visual presentation of data** (skill/competence)
- **demonstrate disciplinary expertise** (skill/competence)
- **design database scheme** (skill/competence)
- **develop data processing applications** (skill/competence)
- **develop professional network with researchers and scientists** (skill/competence)
- **disseminate results to the scientific community** (skill/competence)
- **draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation** (skill/competence)
- **empirical analysis** (knowledge)
- **establish data processes** (skill/competence)
- **evaluate research activities** (skill/competence)
- **execute analytical mathematical calculations** (skill/competence)
- **handle data samples** (skill/competence)
- **implement data quality processes** (skill/competence)
- **increase the impact of science on policy and society** (skill/competence)
- **information categorisation** (knowledge)
- **information extraction** (knowledge)
- **integrate gender dimension in research** (skill/competence)
- **interact professionally in research and professional environments** (skill/competence)
- **interpret current data** (skill/competence)
- **manage data collection systems** (skill/competence)
- **manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data** (skill/competence)
- **manage intellectual property rights** (skill/competence)
- **manage open publications** (skill/competence)
- **manage personal professional development** (skill/competence)
- **manage research data** (skill/competence)
- **mathematical modelling** (knowledge)
- **mentor individuals** (skill/competence)
- **normalise data** (skill/competence)
- **online analytical processing** (knowledge)
- **operate open source software** (skill/competence)
- **perform data cleansing** (skill/competence)
- **perform project management** (skill/competence)
- **perform scientific research** (skill/competence)
- **promote open innovation in research** (skill/competence)
- **promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities** (skill/competence)
- **promote the transfer of knowledge** (skill/competence)
- **publish academic research** (skill/competence)
- **quantitative analysis** (knowledge)
- **query languages** (knowledge)
- **report analysis results** (skill/competence)
- **resource description framework query language** (knowledge)
- **scientific literature** (knowledge)
- **speak different languages** (skill/competence)
- **statistical modeling techniques** (knowledge)
- **statistics** (knowledge)
- **synthesise information** (skill/competence)
- **think abstractly** (skill/competence)
- **use data processing techniques** (skill/competence)
- **use databases** (skill/competence)
- **visual presentation techniques** (knowledge)
- **write scientific publications** (skill/competence)

## Optional

- apply blended learning (skill/competence)
- business analytics (knowledge)
- business intelligence (knowledge)
- computational biology (knowledge)
- computer simulation (knowledge)
- create data models (skill/competence)
- data quality assessment (knowledge)
- define data quality criteria (skill/competence)
- design database in the cloud (skill/competence)
- digital curation (knowledge)
- Hadoop (knowledge)
- healthcare analytics (knowledge)
- image recognition (knowledge)
- integrate ICT data (skill/competence)
- LDAP (knowledge)
- LINQ (knowledge)
- make data-driven decisions (skill/competence)
- manage data (skill/competence)
- manage ICT data architecture (skill/competence)
- manage ICT data classification (skill/competence)
- marketing analytics (knowledge)
- MDX (knowledge)
- multidisciplinary research (knowledge)
- N1QL (knowledge)
- perform data mining (skill/competence)
- research design (knowledge)
- scientific computing (knowledge)
- social network analysis (knowledge)
- SPARQL (knowledge)
- state estimation (knowledge)
- teach in academic or vocational contexts (skill/competence)
- unstructured data (knowledge)
- use spreadsheets software (skill/competence)
- XQuery (knowledge)