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The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century is Tedious, and that Needs to Change

"As organizations collect increasingly large and diverse data sets, the demand for skilled data scientists will continue to rise. In fact, it was dubbed “The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” by HBR."

"Unfortunately, the day-to-day reality of the role doesn’t quite match the romanticized version."

"If we can ever hope to take full advantage of big data, data preparation is going to need to be elevated out of the manual, cumbersome tasks that currently make up the process. Data scientists must be enabled to transform data with greater agility, not just manually prepare data for analysis."

Read the full article by Sean Kandel on Harvard Business Review.