Jobs in Data Science/Data Analytics

• The Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • An About page
  • "The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor is the principal federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy."
  • "Its mission is to collect, analyze, and disseminate essential economic information to support public and private decision making."
  • Notice their "Core Values" down that page just a bit.
• This is a great place to find information related to jobs
  • The Visualize It: Wages and projected openings by Occupation page
    • Is, in my opinion, an example of a hard to read, but information packed graph.
      • For groups of jobs.
      • It shows the Median wage in 2018 (what is this)
      • And the projected growth over the next 10 years.
  • Search for Economy at a Glance
    • Or just click Here
    • Click on PA
    • Look at the stats there.
    • Note, you can go further down and look at some of the major cities.
    • And find an economics summary for Erie
      • Erie and PA have higher unemployment rates than the Nation and the region.
      • But Erie seems to be doing better than the state this year.
  • Enough playing, on to the jobs.
    • Look at Employment Projections.
    • Notice the projection employment change for all jobs: 2018 to 2028 (5.2%)
    • And the median wage: $38,640
  • Let's try a few searches
    • In the Occupation Title search for data
      • No luck, turns out the BLS still does not recognize data science/data analytics
    • Let's try statist
      • There is something promising here, Statistical Assistants
      • Median Wage.
      • Look at the Example job titles.
      • A little searching brings us to this page
      • The description at the top is not quite right, but it will do.
  • BLS also has the Occupational Outlook Handbook: Mathematics and Statistics
    • Look through this.
    • Look at all of the tables.
    • Spend a moment or two looking for your current occupation.
  • One more, search for data science in the search bar
    • Big data adds up to opportunities in math careers
    • published a year and a half ago
    • More of a push for math positions.
• Perhaps something more practical
  • A Data Science Internship at Dick's Sporting Goods
    • R/Python/SQL
    • Stats
    • Not communications requirements.
  • Here is a Junior Data Analyst position in the Cleveland area
    • Note the skills again.
    • "Basic to Intermediate Excel skills with knowledge of spreadsheet functionality including v-look-up, pivot tables, charts, graphing and macros"
  • One more Data Analyst Intern position.
    • Once again, note the skills.
  • Go to indeed
    • Put in data analytics
    • Select a city
    • Note the number of jobs listed
    • Limit the experience level to be Entry Level
    • Look at a few.
• Less Reliable
  • Articles, stories and blogs.
  • A The Quant Crunch: How the demand for data science skills is disrupting the job market. a 2017 report.
    • This is an old article (2016)
    • Projects 2,720,000 openings in data analytics by 2020
    • that is 364,000 new jobs.
  • IBM Predicts Demand For Data Scientists Will Soar 28% By 2020
    • 2017 article by Forbes.
    • High demand predictions.
    • High Salary predictions.
  • Data Science Job Trends – Experts’ Predictions for 2020-2029
    • Aggregates many different articles.
    • Predicts as many as 700,000 new jobs in Data Science.
    • But they don't list sources and I don't trust them that much.
  • Here is an Indeed report: Data Scientist: A Hot Job That Pays Well
    • Posting for Data scientists increased by 31% in December 2018
• Skills