{"id":4073,"date":"2014-09-22T19:22:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T19:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2014-09-22T19:22:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T19:22:43","slug":"stop-searching-elusive-data-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/stop-searching-elusive-data-scientist\/4073\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Searching for That Elusive Data Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"Based purely on the data, a really good data scientist will probably tell you the odds are poor that you\u2019ll be able to find and hire really good data scientists.\u00a0Surveys say\u00a0there simply aren\u2019t enough people with the unusual blend of software skills and statistical savvy to go around. Arguably even more important, high-impact data scientists bring\u00a0collaborative temperaments\u00a0and\u00a0business acumento data-driven initiatives. Unfortunately, there\u2019s no shortage of individuals with just enough statistical and software knowledge to be data-dangerous. For many organizations, a mediocre data scientist may be worse than none at all. What to do? My immediate advice: Give up. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/stop-searching-elusive-data-scientist\/4073\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based purely on the data, a really good data scientist will probably tell you the odds are poor that you\u2019ll be able to find and hire really good data scientists.\u00a0Surveys say\u00a0there simply aren\u2019t enough people with the unusual blend of software skills and statistical savvy to go around. Arguably even more important, high-impact data scientists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[372,373,374],"class_list":["post-4073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-information-technology","tag-leadership","tag-organizational-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4075,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions\/4075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}