Category Archives: Data Science Careers

Cool Data Scientists on Campus

Hal Varian:  “Data availability is going to continue to grow. To make that data useful is a challenge. It’s generally going to require human beings to do it.” Source: Carl Bialik, “Data Crunchers Now the Cool Kids on Campus,” The Wall … Continue reading

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Current Salaries for AI Professionals and Data Scientists

A new salary survey of AI professionals and data scientists finds unprecedented annual increase in compensation for data analysis skills and experience. Read More

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Data Scientists In Growing Demand, Survey Says

73% of data science and analytics teams planned to hire in Q1/Q2 of 2021 and 81% planned to hire in Q3/Q4 of 2021.  Read more

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Salaries of Data Scientists

Covid-19 hasn’t stopped the rise of data science: A new Burtch Works survey found that the median base salaries for data scientists range from $95,500 to $300,000. Read more

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Advancing Your AI Career

“AI Career Pathways” is designed to guide aspiring AI engineers in finding jobs and building a career. The table above shows Workera’s key findings about AI roles and the tasks they perform. You’ll find more insights like this in the … Continue reading

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KDD 2020 Opens Call for Research and Applied Data Science Paper Submissions

ACM SIGKDD Invites Industry and Academic Experts to Submit Advancements in Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning for 26th Annual Conference in San Diego Read more here

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Logistic Regression in R: A Classification Technique to Predict Credit Card Default

Logistic regression is one of the statistical techniques in machine learning used to form prediction models. It is one of the most popular classification algorithms mostly used for binary classification problems (problems with two class values; however, some variants may … Continue reading

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The $250K Median Salary of Data Scientists Managers is Why Google and Salesforce Invested $20B in Self-Service Data Science

Earlier this month, Salesforce announced the acquisition of data visualization and analytics leader Tableau for $15.7 billion and Google announced the acquisition of data discovery and analytics platform Looker for $2.6 billion. Both acquired companies will beef up the acquiring … Continue reading

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Hyper Job Growth for Data Science and Analytics

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Data Science Skills: Domain Expertise, Programming, Statistics

Source: Business Over Broadway Based on a study of 620+ data professionals, we found that data science skills fall into three broad areas: domain expertise (in our case, business), technology/programming and math/statistics.

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