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There has been intense excitement in recent years around activities
labeled "data science," "big data," and "analytics." However, the
lack of clarity around these terms and, particularly, around the
skill sets and capabilities of their practitioners has led to
inefficient communication between "data scientists" and the
organizations requiring their services. This lack of clarity has
frequently led to missed opportunities. To address this issue, we
surveyed several hundred practitioners via the Web to explore the
varieties of skills, experiences, and viewpoints in the emerging
data science community. We used dimensionality reduction techniques
to divide potential data scientists into five categories based on
their self-ranked skill sets (Statistics, Math/Operations Research,
Business, Programming, and Machine Learning/Big Data), and four
categories based on their self-identification (Data Researchers,
Data Businesspeople, Data Engineers, and Data Creatives). Further
examining the respondents based on their division into these
categories provided additional insights into the types of
professional activities, educational background, and even scale of
data used by different types of Data Scientists. In this report, we
combine our results with insights and data from others to provide a
better understanding of the diversity of practitioners, and to
argue for the value of clearer communication around roles, teams,
and careers.
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