The aspect the article did not raise was that according to the recent Kaggle survey, a majority of people practicing in data science work have graduate degrees

The aspect the article did not raise was that according to the recent Kaggle survey, a majority of people practicing in data science work have graduate degrees (57.4%). This will likely drive a new interest amongst Americans. https://www.kaggle.com/surveys/2017 https://www.kaggle.com/surveys/2017