Data Science Is America’s Hottest Job
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#2One of the most ill-defined too.
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#3Employers rediscovering statistics.
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#4One of the most ill-defined too.
I'm actually not that impressed at $160k for "the hotest job" in a major metro, and it sounds like their example with a masters in Stat might be using something more than Xcel plots.
Kind of disgusted though, that Equifax "is shortening the hiring process to keep anyone from slipping away." They could fix their security practices before hiring anyone with Scientist on their resume.
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#5Interesting. Like others point out in then article, I do field a lot of recruiters as an economist/data scientist, but most of the initial offer discussions have silly attributed.Base range max lower than current base salary, contract-to-hire, etc. Having been doing this type of work for almost a decade now, I think this kind of article comes across as recruiter uncertainty rather than identifying the real value add of data science: extracting valid insights from data.
If you want data scientists, pay a good salary and good equity.
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#6Unfortunately a lot of the "Data Scientist" I meet are nothing more than excel / sheets gurus. Most of them have never written a line of code or syntax that is more complex than a nested vlookup.
I hope the tide changes here and I think it will, but this has been my experience so far.
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#7Employers rediscovering statistics.
Bingo.
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#8Recruiter here. Data Science is one of ~3 roles I generally don't recruit for. Not because Data Scientists are super hard to find, but more because companies seem to all want data scientists and all want them to do completely different things and none of them really understand those things. Makes for a pretty lame hiring experience unfortunately. :(
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#9Recently I wrote a tweetstorm of my not-so-great experience hunting for a data science job last summer: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/951117788835278848
Despite data science being a hot job, the sheer, growing number of MOOCs available will cause the high amount gatekeeping from many prospective employers to get even worse.
I am very happy as a data scientist now, and yes, it's more complicated than doing Excel VLOOKUPs! Although I did get rejected from those VLOOKUP positions many times in my job search...
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#10My wife is a data scientist and this is one of her favorite quotes, from Dan Ariely:
Big data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it...