I agree. Most of what I've seen suggests that everyone _thinks_ they need and want machine learning specialists. But mostly they need people who are flexible in

I agree. Most of what I've seen suggests that everyone _thinks_ they need and want machine learning specialists. But mostly they need people who are flexible in how they combine business acumen with statistics, a little ML, analysis, and programming. Business owners usually insist they need the ML soooo much, but they're rarely willing to go all the way and actually deploy ML. Plus, often they don't really need it...Or even modeling of any sort. They may need automated dashboards (for keeping an eye on important KPIs), decision support platforms, etc... Lots of things which require something more than analysts, statisticians, programmers, and the like. In essence they need highly capable jack-of-all-trades who can, on occasion, bring to bear advanced algorithms and stats. But that's a lot more rare than you'd be led to believe given job postings and all the news articles.