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by kylemaxwell 5164 days ago
Not entirely sure this is true, to be honest. Most of "data science" lies in the work of collecting and cleaning the data to get it into a usable state. A recent story on the"fallacy of the data scientist shortage"[1] goes into more detail, but in reality what we want in this quantity are better data analysts. I love the idea of data science as, essentially, viewing statistical analysis from a computer science perspective, but the breathless predictions of a huge shortage seem a little overblown.

[1]: http://smartdatacollective.com/nraden/48952/fallacy-data-sci...