What do data scientists get hired to do? (opens in new tab)

You have started to get interested in data science recently, and always find it interesting spending time thinking about the best way to analyze your data. Your background isn’t computer science, though you’ve studied lots of statistics and have may have every run a few experiments. You do a bit of programming and are decent at math. So you find yourself pondering what you can do after you finish your current project and would like to change fields for a different number of reasons...