The growth of data science over the last two years: 300%

A few websites catering to analytics and data science professionals have experienced tremendous growth recently. Organizations such as INFORMS or AMSTAT have seen their traffic explode, targeting high school students to join the ranks of data scientists. Niche publishers providing high quality, actionable content - and run by true data scientists rather than journalists - have also seen spectacular growth. By data science, I mean all disciplines focused on optimizing value through data analysis. It includes operations research, machine learning, data engineering, biostatistics, data mining, business analytics, predictive modeling, data plumbing, statistics and many more.