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Top services from Data Scientists on Contra

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Jupyter

Jupyter

Data Scientist

Data Science Specialist

LLM fine tuning

$50/hr

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Microsoft Power BI

Data Visualizer

Data Scientist

Sales, Financial, Operations or HR Dashboard

$120/hr

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Data Analysis

Data Scientist

Data Modelling Analyst

Data Analysis/Mapping/Scrapping/Visualisation

$35/hr

Top locations for Data Scientists

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