The AnalyticsWeek and Business Over Broadway Data Science Survey survey revealed regional differences in data science roles, proficiency in data science skills and satisfaction with work outcomes. APAC has the lowest percent of Business Manager data scientists (32%). LATAM has the lowest percent of Creative data scientists (25%). North America has the lowest percent of Developer […]
The hybrid data scientist is one whose work reflects many different data science roles. Hybrid data scientists, compared to data scientists who play a single, narrower role, possess deeper knowledge in particular data science skills such as machine learning, managing unstructured data and optimization. Organizations can leverage their deeper knowledge to improve their data science […]
Building a successful data science program in your company relies on a good understanding of the data professionals who extract insights and value from data and how they do it. Toward that goal, we asked over 600 data scientists about their skills, jobs, colleagues and more. We have summarized the results of this ongoing study in several blog posts […]
The AnalyticsWeek and Business Over Broadway Data Science Survey survey revealed industry differences in data science roles, proficiency in data science skills and satisfaction with work outcomes. The Information Technology industry is home to most data scientists. Data scientists who are Researchers outnumber the other types of data scientists in six of the top 10 industries […]
Data scientists rely on tools/products/solutions to help them get insights from data. Gregory Piatetsky of KDNuggets conducts an annual survey of data professionals to better understand the different types of tools they use. Here are the results of the 2015 survey. He followed his initial posting with additional analyses to better understand which tools go together. […]
Data scientists work at all levels of the organization. Our survey of data professionals revealed that Director-level data scientists have the highest level of proficiency across many data science skills and work with more of their peers compared to data scientists who are Individual Contributors, Managers or even Executives. Satisfaction with outcome of analytics projects did […]
Businesses are teeming with data. As a result, business leaders are building up their data science capabilities to help make sense of their data. Our research showed that an effective approach to optimizing the value of that data is to build data science teams rather than relying on a single data scientist. In today’s post, I […]
Data scientists are highly educated. In our study of data scientists, we found that over half of them, both men and women, hold either a Masters or PhD degree and about a quarter of them hold a 4-year degree. The level of educational attainment is related to proficiency in data science skills (more advanced degrees […]
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