《Data ScientistThe Sexiest Job of the 21st Century》.pdf

Spotlight on Big Data Artwork tamar Cohen, Andrew J Buboltz Spotlight 2011, silk screen on a page from a high school yearbook, 8.5 x 12 Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century Meet the people who hen Jonathan Goldman ar- rived for work in June 2006 can coax treasure out of at LinkedIn, the business messy, unstructured data. networking site, the place still by Thomas H. Davenport felt like a start-up. The com- pany had just under 8 million and D.J. Patil accounts, and the number was growing quickly as existing mem- bers invited their friends and col- leagues to join. But users weren’t seeking out connections with the people who were already on the site at the rate executives had expected. Something was apparently miss- ing in the social experience. As one LinkedIn manager put it, “It was