You’re never going to find a data scientist with that ad

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  • You’re never going to find a data scientist with that ad - TechRepublic
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    Admit it,” [Christi Eubanks, Gartner analyst] writes, “You and/or the recruiter took a bunch of LinkedIn posts and genetically engineered your perfect, beautiful quant baby with skills you didn’t even know you needed.

    And so the job spec asks for an MS or PhD (with an MBA, preferred!) that knows every business intelligence program ever invented, hacks NoSQL databases in her spare time, and also loves PowerPoint.

    This leads Eubanks to conclude: “Data scientists are related to, but not the same as statisticians, who are not all versed in web analytics, which is not SEM, though all of the above can probably handle some SQL, and none would pick .ppt as their favorite medium. There are three or four different experts rolled into this one position, but none of them are going to apply for this job.

    Far better, she argues, following her colleague Svetlana Sicular, to stop searching for unicorns and instead let someone with potential grow into the job. According to Sicular, the best data scientists will be those that know the right questions to ask. Learning the tools (like Hadoop) that help answer the questions is a secondary problem.