Big Datas High-Priests of Algorithms Data Scientists Meld Statistics and Software for Find Lucrative High-Tech Jobs Glimpse of the Article For his Ph.D. in astrophysics, Chris Farrell spent five years mining data from a giant particle accelerator. Now, he spends his days analyzing ratings for Yelp Inc. YELP +1.69% s online business-review site. Mr. Farrell, 28 years old, is a data scientist, a job title that barely existed three years ago but since has become one of the hottest corners of the high-tech labor market. Retailers, banks, heavy-equipment makers and matchmakers all want specialists to extract and interpret the explosion of data from Internet clicks, machines and smartphones, setting off a scramble to find or train them. People call them unicorns because the combination of skills required is so rare, said Jonathan Goldman, who ran LinkedIn Corp.s LNKD +2.65% data-science team that in 2007 developed the People You May Know button, which five years later drove more than half of the invitations on the professional-networking platform. #Students #Professionals #BigData
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