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Demand and Salaries For Data Scientists Continue To Climb (ieee.org)
Data-science job openings are expanding faster than the number of technologists looking for them, says job-search firm Indeed. From a report: Back in August, a LinkedIn analysis concluded that the United States is facing a significant shortage of data scientists, a big change from a surplus in 2015. Last week, job-search firm Indeed reported that its data indicates the shortage is getting worse: While more job seekers are interested in data-science jobs, the number of job postings from employers has been rising faster than the number of interested applicants.
According to Indeed, job postings for data scientists as a share of all postings were up 29 percent in December 2018 compared with December 2017, while searches were only up around 14 percent. "The bargaining power in data science remains with the job seekers," Andrew Flowers, Indeed economist, stated in a press release. [...] Salaries for data scientists are up as well. Average salary in the area surrounding Houston, which topped the 2018 list when adjusted for the cost of living, climbed 16.5 percent since 2017, while the average salary in the San Francisco Bay Area, No. 2 on the adjusted list, jumped 13.7 percent over Indeed's 2017 numbers.
According to Indeed, job postings for data scientists as a share of all postings were up 29 percent in December 2018 compared with December 2017, while searches were only up around 14 percent. "The bargaining power in data science remains with the job seekers," Andrew Flowers, Indeed economist, stated in a press release. [...] Salaries for data scientists are up as well. Average salary in the area surrounding Houston, which topped the 2018 list when adjusted for the cost of living, climbed 16.5 percent since 2017, while the average salary in the San Francisco Bay Area, No. 2 on the adjusted list, jumped 13.7 percent over Indeed's 2017 numbers.
No doubt the big money will be in Data Scientist training programs.
I am not interested in articles about life extension advancements.
We did it? You are not a troll, you are an Agitation Engineer.
Table-ized A.I.
Can you make more than $50,000? Asking for a friend...
I keep applying for these jobs, all of which I am completely qualified for, but the computer sees that my college degree is from 1987 and instantly deletes my resume.
The biggest culprit I can think of is that most government contractors are big on direct recruiting. For example, you often hear employees bring someone they know or a recruiter gets a resume and a manager will say "cool, we'll open a req." Then the req gets quickly filled and disappears.
True, it really means "people who know statistics".
But more than that, it also means people who know statistics but also how to work with numerical computations that deal with statistics.. stat understanding alone is far from the whole story.
I would say it's probably more like a very specialized programming knowledge, than a statistician. And that is why supply is short, because the supply of people who know something like R well is smaller than people who have a good understanding of statistics... it also explains why a shortage remains, because as we all know programming is kind of hard and not something you can easily train anyone into to do well at.
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Actually it is not. I graduate a PhD student that does data science.
When looking for job he realized that "data scientist" essentially means anything from "I need someone to key some form on the computer" to "I need someone to develop new machine learning model", going through "I need an engineer to set up a data lake", and including "I need an excel guru to prototype models and do some regressions".
Salaries naturally range from barely-more-than-minimum-wage to six-digit-salaries.
And the mess is not going to get better with degrees in Data Science that pops everywhere. How do you call a job which primary requirement is to have a BS in Data Science, it really is a Data Scientist position. But it can mean a million different things.
We did it? You are not a troll, you are an Agitation Engineer.
I dunno know about that. Not good quality trolling. Probably only an Agitation Analyst.
Companies are accumulating massive amounts of data but don't have anyone to tell them what it means. Maybe this will one day result in someone asking why they accumulate the data in the first place.
Put a red shirt on him and beam him down to the planet surface.
If your hiring a PhD student to design a data lake your in a world of hurt.
You also need 15 years experience working in a data scientist position, silly.
the job would pay minimum wage. Maybe less (they could "Uberify" it).
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Being a Data Scientist means math. Lots and lots of math. Really hard math like the kind very few people can do. Now, if you fully supported students you'd probably have plenty of them. But that means taxes for the wealthy, and we can't have that. After all, a 70% marginal tax rate means a guy making $10/hr only keeps $3 a day, right? So we'll import H1-Bs. Lots of them, and you'll pay out of pocket for your kid's college or go into debt like crazy. Because we're all about pulling the ladder up behind us
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