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Report: 59% of employed data scientists learned skills on their own or in a MOOC
- shoguning 9y agoIt's actually very common to be in a career not related to your college degree. There is individual level data in the Census Bureau's ACS PUMS data set for those interested in this kind of thing. Self-promotion alert: I worked on a website that has some statistics about this. I found out that only 8% of chemical engineering grads (my undergrad degree) actually work in the field. (https://careertrend.com/major-chemical-engineering.html https://careertrend.com/major-chemical-engineering.html)
- chrisco255 9y agoWith relatively little academic rigor required for such a role, can we trust the results that data scientists are putting out, on average?
- sizzle 9y agonot unless they have a bachelor's or master's STEM degree + years of experience or Phd in a STEM field, I'd imagine.