Here is the 1st batch of results from the Becoming a Data Scientist Survey. Because of the sample size and unscientific casual nature of this survey, we can’t make any broad generalizations about the industry from these results, but you can see some general preliminary trends in the breakdowns that would be interesting to study more.
95% of the 158 respondents who gave answers about their jobs follow at least one of my twitter accounts, so you can think of these results as representing my twitter followers.
I’m mostly going to let the tables and graphs speak for themselves. There’s a lot to unpack in the survey (over 50 questions), and a ton of ways to slice and dice it. Because I wanted to show various breakdowns, I did this in simple Excel pivot tables and didn’t spend a ton of time formatting (I know they’re kinda ugly – sorry).
If any of the tables or charts below are particularly hard to understand, please let me know and I’ll annotate further or improve! Click to view full-size.
Educational Fieldvs Job Title of Data Analyst or Data Scientist (yes/no)
Computer Scientist or Data Sci / Statistics / Analytics Degreevs Job Title of Data Analyst or Data Scientist (yes/no)
30 (19%) of respondents had CS degrees, which was the most common degree name, and 27% of them had a job title that I categorized under Data Analyst or Data Scientist.
8.3% of respondents had Data Science, Statistics, or Analytics degrees, and 38.5% of them had job titles that I categorized as Data Analyst/Scientist.
Educational Levelvs Considers Self Data Scientist (No/Not Yet or Yes)
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Considers Self Data Scientist by Educational Level and Field
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Educational Field by Considers Self Data Scientist
Respondent Breakdown by Job Industry
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Visual of those with Science/Tech/Eng Degrees and Math/Stats/Acctg Degrees
Percentage of Respondents by “Considers Self Data Scientist” with each Salary Range
About 20% (28) of those that do not consider themselves to be Data Scientists make $50-75K. About 17% (7) of those that do consider themselves to be Data Scientists make under $25K.
Because the numbers above looked surprising to me, I filtered the same table to those in North America (assuming that many of the low-salary data scientists might be outside of the U.S.).
In North America, about 21% (22) of those that do not consider themselves to be Data Scientists make $50-75K. But now 25% (5) of those that do consider themselves to be Data Scientists make $125-150K. This also shows that 22 of the 42 people above (52%) that considered themselves Data Scientists live outside of North America.
Bar Charts of Above Data. Top = Data Scientists, Bottom = Not Data Scientists.
I may release some of this data at the end of my analysis. If you’re interested in diving in yourself, let me know in the comments and I’ll work on it for a future post.
More results on the way in the near future! Next up, how many respondents follow each twitter account and whether more people watch or listen to the podcast!