Data Scientists Love Jobs, Dislike What They Do Most: Clean Data -- ADTmag

Paradoxically, data scientists love their jobs overall but dislike what they do most: cleaning and organizing data. That's one of the main takeaways from a new report by CrowdFlower Inc. on what has been called the "sexiest job of the 21st century." "Organizations that start prioritizing ways to help data scientists clean their data are going to find a data team with more time to work on more important -- and more fulfilling -- tasks," said CrowdFlower's Justin Tenuto in a blog post this week announcing the new "2016 Data Science Report" (available as a free PDF upon providing registration information). The report was compiled early this year from surveys, interviews and in-house analytics of CrowdFlower's own platform, which, conveniently, provides a contributor network to help organizations, "collect, clean and label data." In its survey, CrowdFlower found almost the same percentage of respondents reported they spent most of their time cleaning data (60 percent) as those who reported that task to be the least enjoyable part of their job (57 percent).