Source: CrowdFlower, based on “3500 relevant job openings from LinkedIn.”
The folks at CrowdFlower excluded Excel from their list but noted that “that’s still something you see in myriad job listings. Old habits die hard.” Of course, data scientists don’t want to associate the “sexiest job of the 21st century” with old habits. Employers, however, want to cover all bases, sexy or not.
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