Data scientists utilize their analytical, statistical, and programming skills to analyze, model, and interpret big data. They help business teams solve complex data challenges and product teams build data-driven products. They are usually involved in the following tasks:

• Meet with business teams to understand the requirements
• Clean and prepare data using pyhthon and SQL
• Explore data using data visualization tools
• Build and evaluate machine learning models 
• Work with engineers to deploy and automate the models 
• Join scrum meetings to update project status
• Explain models to product or business managers