{"id":2148,"date":"2021-11-19T18:53:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T23:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2022-10-27T15:29:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T19:29:35","slug":"2148","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/2021\/11\/19\/2148\/","title":{"rendered":"DATA SCIENCE JOBS ARE HOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>For the past three years, data scientist has topped\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/business.linkedin.com\/content\/dam\/me\/business\/en-us\/talent-solutions\/emerging-jobs-report\/Emerging_Jobs_Report_U.S._FINAL.pdf\">LinkedIn\u2019s list of fastest emerging jobs in the United States<\/a><span>. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that upward trend will continue, projecting that data and mathematical science occupations will grow 31 percent by 2030. Universities across the country\u2014and the globe\u2014are quickly adding courses to take advantage: five years ago, almost no US college offered a data science major, now more than 50 do, according to advice site Discover Data Science.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At BU, a striking building is rising that aims to put the University at the forefront of this new world\u2014and give its faculty, students, and alums the resources to shape its future. The 19-story<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2021\/update-on-bus-center-for-computing-data-sciences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Center for Computing &amp; Data Sciences<\/a>, which is scheduled to open in 2022, won\u2019t be just for IT experts: soon enough, many of us\u2014whether marketers or music producers, lawyers or activists\u2014will either need to compete with data scientists for our jobs or work with them to stay ahead of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompanies that never were data science companies are becoming data science companies,\u201d says<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2020\/computing-data-science-azer-bestavros-bu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Azer Bestavros<\/a>, Boston University\u2019s first associate provost for computing and data sciences. \u201cThey really don\u2019t have a choice. They have the data and they can\u2019t ignore the fact that competitors are taking advantage of their own data. Every sector is becoming a data sciences sector.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021-11-19: Bostonia &#8211; On how data and mathematical sience occupations are projected to grow more than 30% by 2030<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1690,"featured_media":2149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,35],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2151,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions\/2151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}