Fostering Data Science
Today, there is a worldwide shortage of data science talent that threatens to derail the Big Data revolution that is transforming business and society. The concept of the citizen data scientist first gained prominence in 2015, when Gartner coined the term, referring to it as “a person who creates or generates models that use advanced diagnostic analytics or predictive and prescriptive capabilities, but whose primary job function is outside the field of statistics and analytics.” Gartner believes today's citizen data scientists can perform the sophisticated analyses that could only be done by data scientists in the past.
