Data scientist, according to Glassdoor, will be the number one job in America in 2016, with over 1,700 job openings and a median base salary of $116,840. This is consistent with Indeed.com, whose 2015 first quarter data saw the number of job postings for data scientist grow 57% as compared to the analogous quarter of the previous year. It's no surprise then, as we've mentioned before, that Data Scientist has been deemed the "sexiest job of the 21st century." But the term is ambiguous at best. Asking ten different employers how they see the role of data scientist may yield ten different responses.
