Newsflash: Top notch Data Scientist skills are in shortage. No wonder. Burning Glass identified more than 300 core analytical skills relevant to the Data Science industry. Whether you are looking to hire a data scientist or want to become one of the best in the field, you need to know what Data Science skills are […]
In this two-part series, we’ll look at each side of the false positive and false negative coin, starting with false positives. We’ve observed that once a hiring manager gets burned with a bad data science hire, they begin to distrust the pre-employment skills testing and the overall interview process. Some even admit to becoming very very tough […]
Not only is AI talent scarce; there’s also a shortage of employees who are knowledgeable about the applications of AI-powered tools. For some organizations, it makes sense to retrain existing employees and help them understand how new technologies apply in their respective organizations. – Sameer Maskey, CEO at Fusemachines Retraining employees in new skills is not a […]
Upskilling for Data Fluency is Imperative We recently examined the pressing need to upskill and reskill the workforce for data and analytics fluency across the globe. As a reminder, the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2018 predicts that automation and digitization will displace about 75 million workers and will create 133 million new jobs by the end […]
(5 minute read) The Future Workforce In its 2018 Future of Jobs Report, the World Economic Forum (WEF) predicted that by 2022, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will create 133 million new jobs. Concurrently, it will render 75 million jobs obsolete in the large enterprise subset alone. Multitudes of employees who lack requisite new skills, including data analytic […]
What is Data Engineering? The key to understanding what data engineering lies in the “engineering” part. Engineers design and build things. “Data” engineers design and build pipelines that transform and transport data into a format wherein, by the time it reaches the Data Scientists or other end users, it is in a highly usable state. These pipelines […]
Pandata is a four-year-old, quickly growing data science consulting firm in Ohio founded by Cal Al-Dhubaib, the first data science graduate from Case Western Reserve University. As Pandata began expanding its data science team, it needed a solution that would help the small founding team confidently and efficiently scale the process of hiring data scientists. With senior […]
As we look back on 2019, we’re taking a look at the trends and making predictions for what companies who plan to hire data scientists in 2020 will be facing. (7 minute read) It’s Official – Uncle Sam is Hiring Data Scientists in 2020 “Hiring Data Scientists Isn’t an Exact Science” was the recent headline in an […]
This Quantcrunch Report examines how a major, top ranked university is addressing shifting student, employer and donor interest in data science and related fields. A Top Ranked University Envisions a Data Science Degree Program University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) is ranked number 34 among national universities and number 5 among public universities in US News […]
Since December 2013, data science postings have rocketed 256%—more than tripling. – Indeed Hiring Lab, January 2019. Demand for data scientists is booming and will only increase. The supply of skilled applicants, however, is growing at a slower pace. – Search Business Analytics, January 2019 Data Science has taken off like discounted Nutella in a European supermarket – Clint Chegin, Product Scientist […]
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