Why is it so Hard to Find Great Data Science Managers?

Ken Jee
Towards Data Science
4 min readAug 27, 2019

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Data science is booming worldwide, IBM predicts that there will be ~2.7 Million opportunities in the industry by 2020. Many companies believe that this discipline will be the future of decision making for their leadership teams. Because of this, there has been a meteoric increase of data science jobs and an influx of data scientists.

It is usually an afterthought, but the question arises: who can manage and lead this group?

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