O perfil e o papel do cientista de dados

Abstract

Decision making by managers is a recurring issue in organizations and companies today. With the massive amount of data available within organizations and from external sources, organizations have been looking for new technologies and methods among the information systems to obtain better quality information. Data science (DS), which is an emerging field in the area of information science, carries the characteristics of data transformation and data analysis in a way that helps the organization in decision making as well. This work seeks to contextualize and conceptualize the profile and role of a data scientist as well as the big data environment. The study aims to present the importance of the information professional, as well as the contributions that they can bring to the environment of large amount of data to data science.