Entrepreneurial mindset
"Someone you would start a company with" - DJ Patil
Passion for solving problems
"Passionate people are driven to learn and understand more about their field"
Communication skills
"[It] doesn’t matter how great your analysis is unless you can explain it to others: you need to communicate your results” - Hadley Wickham
Technical acumen
"Coding, machine learning, big data, structured data, unstructured data" - Matthew Mayo