Analysis of education and job trends in data science

Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Publication Date

11-2016

Abstract

As we are approaching Year 2017, the term "data scientist" is continuing to be a top trending job title in many job portals. Due to this signifant increase in the demand of "data" ready workforce, many organizations around the world (includnig educational institutions as well as professional training firms both offline and online) are offering courses in "Data Science" as a subject. This study examines job trends in Data Science. In particular, our study investigates job trends across industry verticals and across different geographical areas. Further, our study examines skills and qualifications associated with each different job position. The insights derived from this analysis are useful to educational institutions as well as training firms in designing courses and programs that are best aligned with the industry demand. We built a system that automatically crawls job trend data from multiple external sources and cross compares different job postings (including skills in demand) against skills taught in an Information Systems undergraduate and graduate programs at a Singapore tertiary educational institution.

Keywords

data science, job trends, skills, workforce, training

Discipline

Computer and Systems Architecture | Computer Sciences

Research Areas

Data Science and Engineering

Publication

Proceedings of the 9th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation Seville, Spain, 2016 November 14-16

ISBN

9788461758951

Identifier

10.21125/iceri.2016

Publisher

IATED

City or Country

Seville, Spain

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2016

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