Why hire a data scientist?

Question

Could someone tell me why hire a data scientist?

Answer 1

A data scientist is one of the most trending jobs around the globe today. As aptly described by Harvard Business Review: Data Scientist’s job is “the sexiest job of 21^st century”. Now coming back to your query, Data Scientists are very much required by every company to put their data-driven approach. As we continuously are generating huge amounts of data, data scientists work upon these data to extract quality actionable insights that could help the organization in making informed decisions to boost efficiency. Data Scientists need programming skills, proficient in statistics, and equipped with analytics skills. He needs all these three skills to extract useful information. So, essentially a company is getting a person with these three skills and in the mix with the domain understanding. That means they are hiring a person who understands their business, packed with these three skills combined. What more do you need? to drive the data-driven approach forward.

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