Analysis of "Data Scientist: the sexiest job of the 21st century" by Thomas H. Davenport and D.J. Patil

1. DATA SCIENTIST
Sexiest job of 21st Century.

2. The sexy job in the next 10 years will be
statisticians. If “sexy” means having rare
qualities that are much in demand, data
scientists are already there.
You know what they say, right?

3. Yup, you heard that right!

4. So what do they do?

5. As they make discoveries, they communicate
what they’ve learned and suggest its
implications for new business directions.

6. Often they are creative in displaying information visually and
making the patterns they find clear and compelling

7. Data
scientists
want to
build
things, not
just give
advice.

8. What abilities
make a data
scientist
successful?

9. ability
to
write
code

10. More enduring will be the need for data scientists to
communicate in language that all their stakeholders
understand

11. Dominant trait
among data
scientists:
INTENSE
CURIOSITY

12. HOWEVER,
There is potential downside to
having people with
sophisticated skills

13. Not many individuals
adopt “data
science” as a career

14. The shortage of data
scientists is becoming a
serious constraint in
some sectors.

15. A
F
T
E
R years
THERE WILL BE
ENOUGH DATA
SCIENTISTS IN
THE INDUSTRY

16. Data science is the
“sexy” job one can
choose today