What does a data scientist do? We talked to one to learn about this popular and lucrative field | Big Data - TechRepublic

Scott Matteson, senior systems administrator and freelance technical writer reports, Learn insights from a data scientist about what it's like to work in the field and how to approach this career.
  

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Data scientists process and interpret what usually constitutes massive amounts of information to help deliver insights across a wide variety of fields and disciplines, including marketing, social media, finance, sales, and health care.

Data science is an expanding, lucrative field offering plenty of potential. In fact, Glassdoor ranked data scientists as having the best job in America for 2019 based on earning potential, job satisfaction, and number of openings. In fact, the average data scientist salary clocks in at about $91K in the United States.

A career in data science doesn't just happen; the field attracts certain candidates with specific skills and backgrounds oriented toward analysis.

I spoke with one such data scientist, Sri Megha Vujjini, who works at Saggezza, a global managed services provider and technology consulting firm. She started her career at Deloitte for a year, then went back to school for her master's in data sciences. Originally interested in telecommunications engineering, she moved toward data science after building algorithms for robotics. 
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