A data scientist also isn’t a data analyst, he added, who take the cleaned-up data from specialists and summarize it with basic statistical concepts and a pretty visualization.

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“A data scientist can find patterns in data that you haven’t sent them to find,” says Tom Wheeler, senior vice president of development at customer interaction analysis firm ClickFox.

Data scientists have the best job in America, according to Glassdoor. The field may be relatively new and occasionally vaguely defined, but one thing's for sure — it's also growing.