Sandra Gittlen wrote a very nice article for Network World titled Could data scientist be your next job? She did an excellent job explaining the problem with defining exactly what a data scientist is. She also interviewed a couple people leading the push to get universities to provide data scientist training. According to her article and many others on the internet, it is a great time to be learning data science skills. Companies cannot find enough data scientists. Plus, Sandra was kind enough to interview me for the article.