"Rather than hire one of these rare and expensive people, why couldn't a business hire a statistician and a couple of computer science people and have them work

"Rather than hire one of these rare and expensive people, why couldn't a business hire a statistician and a couple of computer science people and have them work as a team?" This paradigm shift is happening at intelligent companies. You hire a competent software developer who took stats 101 and knows how to Google some stuff, then have him oversee a pair of interns, one who has a math/stats degree and the other who has a physics/engineering degree. In six months you'll have a trained Data Science (tm) team.