Afew years ago, Tom Davenport, the President’s Distinguished Professor of IT and Management at Babson College, and a research fellow at the MIT Center for Digital Business, proclaimed that “data scientist” would be the “sexiest” job in the 21st century. This topic was discussed at The 2014 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, both during the session moderated by Davenport, “Big Data, Analytics and Insights,” and at one of the big data “Birds of a Feather” luncheon tables.

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