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.

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Training

[lazarus]

No doubt the big money will be in Data Scientist training programs.

Re:Training

[ShanghaiBill]

What makes you think the majority of data scientists have any relevant training?

Because it is so easy to do. Most of the courses are available for free on Youtube. I started watching Bayesian statistics and Tensorflow tutorials on Friday afternoon. By Monday morning, I was a data scientist.

Re:Training

[rtb61]

The demand is quite peculiar ie 'are you anal retentive enough to be completely blithely ammoral about prying into the private lives of people so that you can manipulative them in order to monetise their existence, then we have a job for you'. Now, that is the truth, that particular job is attracting the worst of the worst, in the digital arena both in terms of employers and employees, real slimey douche bag territory. Not all there are all sorts of valid data analysis problems but everyone knows thanks to the precedents set by the dick brains at Google and co, prying into and controlling people's private lives is the dominant focus, it's a fucking sickness.

Being associated with that kind of employment is going to become a real stain upon a persons character, guilt by intimate association, oh your a data scientist, hows that anal probe program going.

Re:Fancy words for statisticians

[Tablizer]

why must tech nerds rebrand everything?

We did it? You are not a troll, you are an Agitation Engineer.