From the course: Lessons from Data Scientists

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Most challenging parts of the job

Most challenging parts of the job

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Most challenging parts of the job

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- The most challenging parts of the job, one is trying to keep everything really straight with the data, 'cause a lot of times, you deal with bad data, and it takes the longest amount of time on any given project to try to deal with all of the data in the world, because everybody knows there's a bunch of data in the world right now. But it's not all good data, it's not all uniform and cleansed data, it's not all in the format that you need. And a lot of times, you really wish you had this one data item, but for some reason, when the user enters it on their website, they entered it in 80 different forms, or it got lost, or people stopped keeping track of it. So it's really challenging when you encounter problems like that, and you're like, "Man, I really wish we had this that we could analyze," and the data is unusable, or it's just not there.

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