How to hire data scientists

Data scientists aren’t a nice-to-have anymore, they’re a must-have, and businesses of all sizes are scooping up this new breed of engineering professional. Companies like Apple, BirchBox, GE, Facebook, YellowPages, Bank of America and a swath of startups all have data scientists on their payroll. Even the White House has a chief data scientist. It used to be a role no-one wanted. Today it’s a diff

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“More than two-thirds of data scientists say cleaning and organizing data is their most-time consuming task and 52.3 percent say that poor quality data is their biggest daily obstacle.”