So you want to be a data scientist?

摘要

AFTER MONTHS of high unemployment and a still-wobbly economy, any good news from the jobs market is going to get some traction. But even that doesn't seem to fully explain the attention surrounding a suddenly very "in" job title: data scientist. According to CNN, data scientist is one of the best new jobs of 2012, and an article in the Harvard Business Review called it the "sexiest" job of the 21st century.