Machine Learning: Is Citizen Data Science Real?

We hear a lot these days about the "citizen data scientist." Everyone wants to use data science and machine learning to understand their business and automate tasks to improve efficiency. But we have a shortage of people with data science skills, so much so that salaries are high for properly qualified people. To chief data officers, it's an attractive proposition to take people from within their business who understand data and have a strong mathematical background and convert them to data scientists through self-study and online courses. We have a new generation of visual composition framework tools that enable a business user to visually compose pipelines of algorithms, using techniques such as R and Python selectively to solve more complex problems.