The Case Against a Data Center of Excellence

I recently had lunch with some new friends, one of whom has a 17-year-old son entering college. He's really interested in math and statistics.

Given the insane cost of college education, why not graduate with a degree in a white-hot field? At the top of the list these days is data science. Demand far exceeds supply. If I were a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon with a $63,000 annual bill, you can bet that I'd strongly consider going down this road.

This begs the question: Does an organization really need a data scientist to "do" Big Data?

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