Re:Desperate for Data Scientists
by bobmarley1 on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @10:09AM
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I've actually seen many many job postings looking for people with a PhD in Data Science which is truly mindblowing because there are only 2-3 such programs in the Country and most of them just started so none of their students are even on the job market yet.
Re:Desperate for Data Scientists
by PAClearner on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @02:51PM
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ummm you are probably wrong.
those job postings probably want people with PhDs in Computer Science/Statistics/Applied Math that did hard things with data.
> Data science degree programs are still quite novel
Indeed, plus you have zero business experience straight out of such a program so you are at a disadvantage if you are starting your career as such.
For a data science role focused around exploratory analysis, model building and idea generation (as opposed to a more engineering-focused data scientist) I'd say that a basic understanding of programming concepts and familiarity with the most essential tools (version control, Linux, Python/R) is probably enough to be accepted into a data science role. Data science degree programs are still quite novel so most companies don't expect to recruit people with such a degree, hence there are good opportunities for people with a STEM education I'd say.