Cartoon: Data Scientist was the sexiest job of the 21st century until …

We revisit our popular cartoon, which has not lost any relevancy.

A few years ago the Harvard Business Review article by Thomas Davenport and DJ Patil proclaimed Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century

But here is what may be coming ...

Data Scientist: "I thought I had the sexiest job of the 21st century"

This cartoon was ably drawn by Jon Carter.

A recent KDnuggets Poll Data Scientists Automated and Unemployed by 2025? found the majority of respondents thought that expert-level Data Science will be automated by 2025.

Here are more KDnuggets posts on Data Science automation

• Automated Machine Learning vs Automated Data Science
• The Current State of Automated Machine Learning
• Automated Data Science & Machine Learning: An Interview with the Auto-sklearn Team
• Contest Winner: Winning the AutoML Challenge with Auto-sklearn
• Contest 2nd Place: Automating Data Science
• Data Science Automation: Debunking Misconceptions

and KDnuggets tags

• Automated Data Science,
• Automated,
• Automation.

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