Opinion: Why a Data Scientist is the hottest job in tech right now Venture

Written for Daily Hive by Steve Astorino, vice president of Development, Cognos, and Planning Analytics at Hybrid Data Management and Director of IBM Canada Labs, the largest software development organization in Canada. He is the co-author of "Artificial Intelligence: Evolution and Revolution" Harvard Business Review once called Data Scientists "the sexiest job of the 21st century." So what exactly is a data scientist, and what makes it such a hot job in today's market? Despite its rise across Canadian and global business sectors, data science is still largely unknown or misunderstood by the public at large. In one sentence, a data scientist understands how to collect, use, and analyze data using a machine learning model to solve real-world problems.