Data Wizard: School or Short Cut?

August 2, 2018

With the increase focus on data analytics and search, the role of data scientists has changed drastically over the last decade, or heck, even over the last twelve months. With that increasing dependence on their skills and the continual flexibility of their world, higher ed has been responding. Turns out, these number crunchers are becoming increasingly educated, according to a fascinating article from Kaggle, “The State of ML and Data Science in 2017.”

  • The survey spoke with thousands of machine learning and data science experts and found a variety of insights, like how 41.8% have a Master’s degree, but only 15% have doctorals.
  • “What is your highest level of formal education?
  • “So, should you get that next degree? In general, the highest percentage of people in working data science, obtained a Master’s degree. But those people in the highest salary ranges ($150K – $200K and $200k+) are just as likely to have a doctoral degree.”

Many schools are beginning to offer data science programs for undergrads and grad students, however, universities are now struggling to define what this fluid field exactly, “is”. The University of Houston had to grapple with just such an issue and the results were vague at best. But, we’d say these baby steps are in the right direction.

Beyond Search believes that some “data experts” just tweak their LinkedIn profiles. Easy. Quick. Marketing.

Patrick Roland, August 2, 2018

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One Response to “Data Wizard: School or Short Cut?”

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