#rs/discussion #rs/class/ad450
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"[T]heir greatest opportunity to add value is not in creating reports or presentations for
senior executives but in innovating with customer-facing products and processes."

This quote stood out to me because it often seems like a lot of work with data is behind the scenes of companies and that it is mostly used for internal analytics. While this is all used to create better products for the user it doesn't seem like data science is often used to directly innovate on customer-facing products. In the cases where this does happen it seems like there can be a large impact to improve a product for the consumer with more data and analysis.

"There simply aren’t a lot of people with their combination of scientific
background and computational and analytical skills."

This quote stood out to me since it was a little surprising that there are not enough people for this job. The article was written in 2012 though, so this field was still relatively new and there was not the amount of people in computer science and related fields that there are now. I wonder if there is still a shortage or with how many people are in computer science there is enough supply for the demand of data scientist roles.