An infographic emphasising the future skills gap for "data scientists"
I blogged recently and mentioned the importance of new skills being brought into your marketing team, and especially people with computer and mathematical science qualifications being of increasing importance.
I noticed this infographic and thought it was useful for their emphasis of the importance of 'Data Scientists' to the future of companies. It seems there's a growing recognition of the value of applying data to marketing.
As you can see, it seems as if demand for "data scientists" will outstrip supply, indeed it already is. So that's an opportunity for getting an edge in the jobs marketplace. As you might expect, the main challenge isn't lack of tools, it's having the skills to apply them, to ask the right questions and for management to give a supportive framework where time is defined for analysis and decision making based on data.