The Future of Data Scientists

In the fall of 2012, I remember my mother telling me about an article that said data scientists are the new, sexy profession. The moment stuck with me because nobody wants to hear their parents utter the word, "sexy". Unbeknownst to me at the time, this Harvard Business Review article is claimed to be the catalyst for the huge onslaught of students entering the data science field. This wave of "data enthusiasm" would come to have a heavy influence on my own career trajectory. Over the next eight years, the terminology used to describe data-related topics had changed dramatically.