Created by Rishabh Singh of BIET Jhansi during a Business Analytics Internship under Prof. Sameer Mathur @ IIM Lucknow

1. DATA SCIENTIST:The Sexiest
Job of 21st Century

2.  Name of the Article : Data Scientist-The
Sexiest Job of the 21st Century
 Authors : Thomas H. Davenport & D.J. Patil
 Edition : October 2012
 Source : Harvard Business Review

3. Thomas H. Davenport
 An American author specializing in analytics,
business process invocation and knowledge
management
 Director of Research at International Institute of
Analytics and Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics
D.J. Patil
 V.P.of Product at Relatel Q, Advisor at Inside
Vault
 He worked aa the Head of Data Products, Chief
Scientist and CSO for LinkedIn (2008-2011)

4.  It is the study of generalizable extraction of
knowledge from data.
 It builds on techniques and theories from
various fields including
 Mathematics
 Probability Models
 Statistical Learning
 Computer Programming
 Data Engineering
 Pattern Recognition
 Data Warehousing

5. They are the people who know how to find the
feasible solutions to the Business Questions
from the unlimited stream of today’s digital
data.

6. They are business experts, statistics experts,
programming experts, database technology
experts, and visualization and
communication experts.

7.  In this article, it was described that in some
of the sectors, shortage of data scientists has
become a serious constraint.
 Back in the 1990s, computer engineer and
Wall Street “quants” were the hot
occupations in business.
 Indeed, Greylock Partners, the VC firm that
backed Facebook and LinkedIn, is so worried
about the shortage of data scientists.

8.  Identify the data sources
 Swim in big data
 Find valuable information in that data
 Make the formats data structured

9.  Ability to access the unstructured data
 Good Oral & Communication Skills
 Good Mathematical & Statistical background
 Strong desire to pursue in this field
 Ability to write code and develop products

11. 1.) Data Science is all about
Exploring &
Experimentation

12. 2.) Data Science is a Hot
Job of the decade

14. 1.) Indian Managers should allow
the data scientists try their
hands at new ideas of
innovation and hence help them
contribute to the economic
growth of the society.

15. 2.) Indian Managers can start
early hiring of the second
generation of data scientists as
waiting at such a time of
scarcity can cause a lag in their
organization’s economic growth.