As Carnegie Mellon statistician Cosma Shaliz points out, O'Neill's description of the skills required of a data scientist are precisely those of a suitably well-educated statistician, even if he or she has only an undergraduate degree in the subject. Granted, Shaliz teaches at Carnegie Mellon, which is among the best engineering schools on the planet, so that's not to say that everyone with a B.S. in statistics has mastered modern regression, advanced data analysis, data mining and statistical visualization.
This re-branding of statistical literacy as "data science" points out a larger trend -- disciplines that were formerly the domain of the specialist, such as statistics, are now more important than to a larger segment of the business world than ever. The fact that so few students view even a fraction of this level of mastery as necessary -- and that schools often do not offer even a basic statistical education to non math majors until the post-graduate level -- suggests that in this area, perhaps even more than other areas associated with engineering, there is a yawning gap between the skills our workforce possesses and the skills employers require.
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