The recent emergence of the digital enterprise has created a seemingly insatiable management appetite to amass and analyze data. This demand coincides with the rapidly decreasing cost of storing those data and preparing them for analysis, along with the growth in computing power to support the application of increasingly sophisticated techniques for extracting meaning from complex data. To better understand what distinguishes data scientists from other quantitative analysts (and what it takes to get the best out of data scientists), we recently surveyed more than 300 analytics professionals working in different types of companies (ranging from startups to large multinationals) in a variety of industries in the United States to learn how they viewed their work and their place in the organization. .

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