Are there really 28,504 data scientist positions posted on the
recruiting site Dice.com? That’s the number that comes up when you
search for “data scientist,” but that incorporates listings that
include both words, together or not. According to Dice, the number at
any given time is actually more like 150.
Even so, it’s a desirable job. After all, no less than the Harvard Business Review, back in 2012, dubbed the position of data scientist as the sexiest job of the 21st century. As Wired noted the following year, “Nate Silver’s eerily accurate election predictions and Paul DePodesta’s baseball-revolutionizingMoneyball techniques” made celebrities of math nerds. Just a week or so ago, Mashable called it2015’s hottest profession.
In a stunning collision of increased demand and diminished supply, though, a couple of weeks ago CNBC’s Nyshka Chandran cited data from both McKinsey and IDC showing there will be horrific shortfalls in the number of data scientist candidates available. Forbes columnist Louis Columbus, looking at where big data jobs will be in 2015, used data from Wanted Analytics and reached similar conclusions.
Source:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/howardbaldwin/2015/01/05/what-should-data-scientists-know/?ss=data-companies
Even so, it’s a desirable job. After all, no less than the Harvard Business Review, back in 2012, dubbed the position of data scientist as the sexiest job of the 21st century. As Wired noted the following year, “Nate Silver’s eerily accurate election predictions and Paul DePodesta’s baseball-revolutionizingMoneyball techniques” made celebrities of math nerds. Just a week or so ago, Mashable called it2015’s hottest profession.
In a stunning collision of increased demand and diminished supply, though, a couple of weeks ago CNBC’s Nyshka Chandran cited data from both McKinsey and IDC showing there will be horrific shortfalls in the number of data scientist candidates available. Forbes columnist Louis Columbus, looking at where big data jobs will be in 2015, used data from Wanted Analytics and reached similar conclusions.
Source:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/howardbaldwin/2015/01/05/what-should-data-scientists-know/?ss=data-companies
