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While an academic education is necessary for data science, citizen data science is more a matter of attitude. In principle, every employee, even one without knowledge of statistics and programming, can become a citizen data scientist. Therefore, citizen data science should be viewed as a culture.

According to the analysts from Gartner, a citizen data scientist defines a citizen data scientist as a person who creates models that use advanced analytics and predictive and prescriptive capabilities, but whose primary job function is outside the field of statistics and analytics.⁴

Citizen data scientists tell stories about a company based on company data by translating this data into a language that everyone can understand. Most of all, citizen data scientists need to be curious. They have to be able to recognize potentially useful information in a large amount of data and to highlight and translate key findings for other employees and departments.

The culture of citizen data science is based on the strategic topics of big data processing and cloud computing and artificial intelligence, and supports data-driven decision-making and the maker culture.