Financial analysts today rarely need to recruit data scientists to help them because the platforms they use already provide the data science tools they need. The Path Forward For Data ScientistsOver the coming years, I foresee data scientists dividing into at least five types of workers:1. Generalists: The first group will be data science generalists, who will interpret data and make it usable. This worker won’t be a data scientist who understands manufacturing but rather a manufacturing leader who understands data science. While data scientists are usually recognized for their brilliant algorithms, up to 80% of a data scientist's time could be spent collecting, cleaning and organizing data.

Source: Forbes March 01, 2019 12:45 UTC