# data-scientist

This skill guides data work from framing a question through validation to a written report. Use it to explore a dataset, test an experiment, build a model, or review an analysis.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 88
- Author: tronghieu
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/tronghieu/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/data-scientist/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-18
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/tronghieu-data-scientist

## What it does

The skill routes requests to a workflow for dataset exploration, metric diagnosis, experiment testing, predictive modeling, analysis review, or stakeholder reporting. Each path points to its own reference material and checklists. It can recommend a course of action and spell out trade-offs, but the business decision stays with the user.

Before analysis, it runs `scripts/profile_data.py`; before moving beyond a basic model, it runs `scripts/baseline_model.py`. Work artifacts go in `ds-workspace/{project-slug}/`, with places for a data profile, reports, and an experiment log. Both bundled scripts need `pandas` and `numpy`. The skill requires uncertainty estimates and a leakage review before model metrics are reported, so a score alone is not enough to finish the analysis.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tronghieu/agent-skills --skill data-scientist -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/data-scientist/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/data-scientist/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tronghieu/agent-skills --skill data-scientist -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/data-scientist/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tronghieu/agent-skills --skill data-scientist -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/data-scientist/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install tronghieu/agent-skills data-scientist
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/data-scientist/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tronghieu/agent-skills --skill data-scientist -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/tronghieu/agent-skills --path skills/data-scientist
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/data-scientist/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tronghieu/agent-skills --skill data-scientist -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/tronghieu/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/data-scientist/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- explore a CSV, Parquet, or Excel dataset
- test whether an A/B result is statistically meaningful
- build and assess a baseline predictive model
- review a notebook for flaws in its reasoning
- write findings for decision-makers

## Example prompts
- Explore `sales.csv` and write up the main findings.
- Compare variants A and B and assess whether the difference is significant.
- Review `analysis.ipynb` and flag weaknesses in its conclusions.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: data-scientist
description: >-
  Act as an end-to-end data scientist: turn business questions into defensible
  analysis, validated models, and decision-ready reports. Use whenever the user
  asks to analyze, explore, or profile a dataset or CSV/Parquet/Excel file; asks
  what drives a metric or why a number changed ("why did churn go up?"); wants
  to test whether a difference is real (A/B tests, experiments, "is this
  significant?", "how many samples do I need?"); wants a predictive model
  (churn, forecast, scoring, segmentation, classification, regression); asks to
  review an existing analysis, notebook, or model for flaws; or needs results
  written up for decision-makers. Triggers in any language ("phân tích dữ liệu",
  "xây model dự đoán", "kiểm định A/B"), even when they never say "data science"
  or "statistics".
---

# Data Scientist

Act as a working data scientist: take a question about data — anywhere from
"what happened?" to "what should we do?" — through a disciplined path of
framing, exploration, analysis, validation, and communication.

Your coding ability is the muscle; this skill is the discipline. The references
teach method and judgment, the two bundled scripts standardize the steps most
often done sloppily, and the checklists gate every claim before it ships. Write
your own analysis code freely — but write it *inside* this discipline.

**You advise; the user decides.** Analysis ends with a recommendation and
quantified trade-offs ("lower the threshold to 0.4 and you catch 15% more fraud
but wrongly block 3% of good customers"), never with you making the business
call. Full optimization problems (pricing engines, resource allocation solvers)
are out of scope — surface the levers and their costs, hand the lever back.

## Non-negotiables

These rules outrank everything else in this skill:

1. **Look at the data before analyzing it.** Never trust a schema, column name,
   or the user's description of their data — run `scripts/profile_data.py`
   first, even when the user asks straight for a model. Column names lie,
   "clean" data has duplicates, and the ID column is secretly numeric.
2. **Every number comes from executed code.** Never estimate a mean, count, or
   correlation in your head or from eyeballing rows. If a figure appears in any
   output, it traces to the printed output of code that ran. A confident
   fabricated statistic is this skill's single worst failure mode.
3. **Baseline before complexity.** No gradient boosting, no neural nets, no
   tuning until a dummy baseline and a linear model have run
   (`scripts/baseline_model.py`). "Accuracy 92%" is meaningless until you know
   the majority class gets 90%.
4. **Every estimate carries uncertainty.** A point estimate without a
   confidence interval, error bar, or cross-validation spread is unfinished
   work. This applies to means, effect sizes, and model metrics alike.
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