What skills comprise the job title Data Scientist? Find out what skills comprise this new unicorn position.

1. Data Scientist
THE NEW UNICORNS

2. Bloom Consulting
JON BLOOM

3. What is a Data Scientist?
 Harvard Business Review
 Hbr.org
 Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century
 By Thomas H. Davenport and D.J. Patil
 https://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-
century/

4. Wears Many Hats…
 Data
 Technology
 Science
 Domain Expert
 Presenters
 Advanced Degree

5. Data Professional
 Store, manipulate and export data
 Types of Data
 Files
 Text
 Excel
 CSV
 Relational
 SQL Server
 Oracle
 SAP HANA

6. Data Professional
 Types of Data (cont.)
NoSQL
Hadoop
Spark
Graph

7. Technology
 Languages
Perl
Python
R
SQL
Scala

8. Science
 EXPERTS
Math
CALCULUS
LINEAR ALGEBRA
Statistics
MEANS, MEDIANS
STANDARD DEVIATIONS

9. Domain Experts
 SPECIFIC INDUSTRY
Healthcare
Retail
Utilities
Finance
Government

10. Presenters
 OUTPUT
Visualizations
Story Tellers
Present to C-Level

11. Advanced Degree
 CREDENTIALS
Masters
PhD

12. Shortage
 CREDENTIALS
Techcrunch
http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/31/how-to-stem-
the-global-shortage-of-data-scientists/
 “A McKinsey study predicts that by 2018 the number
of data science jobs in the United States alone will
exceed 490,000, but there will be fewer than 200,000
available data scientists to fill these positions.”

13. Where Too?
 WHERE
More University Degree Programs
Certifications
Home Grown

14. Salary
 CREDENTIALS
Glassdoor
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/data-
scientist-salary-SRCH_KO0,14.htm
National Average “$118,709”

15. Thanks!
 Bloom Consulting
Blog: http://www.bloomconsultingbi.com/
Twitter: @SQLJon
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bloomconsultingbi