In my opinion, an understanding of data structures is _much_ more useful for a data scientist than algorithms.
Why should data scientists know about algorithms? Because data scientists are typically interviewed by computer scientists/software engineers, and that's what they tend to ask.
I recently conducted many phone and on site interviews for a data scientist position. I didn't ask about algorithms.
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In my opinion, an understanding of data structures is _much_ more useful for a data scientist than algorithms.
Why should data scientists know about algorithms? Because data scientists are typically interviewed by computer scientists/software engineers, and that's what they tend to ask.
I recently conducted many phone and on site interviews for a data scientist position. I didn't ask about algorithms.