The hottest new Math job – Data Scientists
“Mr. Chris Farrell is a 28 year-old data scientist, a job title that barely existed three years ago but since has become one of the hottest corners of the high-tech labor market. Retailers, banks, heavy-equipment makers and matchmakers all want specialists to extract and interpret the explosion of data from Internet clicks, machines and smartphones, setting off a scramble to find or train them.
People call them “unicorns” because the combination of skills required is so rare and employers say the ideal candidate must have more than traditional market-research skills: the ability to find patterns in millions of pieces of data streaming in from different sources, to infer from those patterns how customers behave and to write statistical models that pinpoint behavioral triggers.” Perhaps this is where our young, socially-connected, internet savvy mathematicians should be focusing their math skills? As one news article called it – this is the sexiest job of the 21st century. Full article from the Wall St Journal here.
After attending the recent Data Science Summit in Las Vegas David Dietrich, Advisory Technical Consultant in EMC’s Global Education Services organization, came up with a model that described the traits of many of the participating data scientists;