In 2012, HBR dubbed data scientist “the sexiest job of the 21st century”. It is also, arguably, the vaguest. To hire the right people for the right roles, it’s important to distinguish between ...

Overview:  Cleaning, sorting, building basic models, and manual reports are being handled in the background. The future role ...

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People who can turn big data into useful information are in growing demand in the private sector; is government keeping up with the trend? After our story on the importance of data scientists, “IT ...

When “data scientist” was coined in the 1960s, the role focused on pattern recognition to extract insights from data. Today, the amount of data has grown so substantially that we developed more ...

Garrett Andrews is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Political Science at Portland Community College where he teaches State and Local Government. With five years of experience as a writer ...

In this special guest feature, Aria Haghighi, VP of Data Science at Amperity, discusses several important questions to ask yourself when hiring a data scientist. Hiring data scientists is hard.

It may get lost sometimes in the torrent of news about algorithms, AI agents, and advances in computing, but the future of data science will pivot on the collaborations of people. A new Yale program ...

Businesses across the world are hiring data scientists to beef up their efficiency and competitiveness via artificial intelligence (AI). Startup companies (dubbed AI-First companies) are disrupting ...

Environmental data scientists use computing and mathematics to develop sustainable solutions for environmental problems. Environmental data scientists balance and combine expertise from multiple ...