At Burtch Works, we like to run periodic “flash surveys” on our network of thousands of analytics professionals and data scientists, since it’s a great way to gauge changes in the market! After seeing a few surveys about why business professionals change jobs, we were curious to see what would motivate analytics and data science… Read more »
Machine learning buzz has seemingly taken the world by storm – but which groups are most likely to use these techniques, and how does usage vary by industry? As machine learning techniques have become much more ubiquitous in the data science and analytics community over the past few years, we decided it was high time… Read more »
Linda Burtch, Managing Director at Burtch Works | 30+ years’ experience in quantitative recruiting After taking a look at Attrition and Tenure of data scientists and predictive analytics professionals over the past year, we decided to survey hiring managers to see if the shifts among professionals were reflected in employers’ hiring intentions for the beginning… Read more »
Learn more about some of the other SAS vs. R vs. Python trends we’ve seen develop over the past four years by watching our 10 minute mini-webinar on YouTube! As many of you probably know, over the past few years we’ve been gauging statistical tool preferences among data scientists and predictive analytics professionals by sending out… Read more »
Linda Burtch, Managing Director at Burtch Works | 30+ years’ experience in quantitative recruiting Since we’re now firmly planted in 2017 and predictive analytics & data science teams have likely set their hiring plans (for the time being), we decided to check in and see how the hiring market is looking this year. Many of… Read more »
Use cases for data science and analytics continue to grow, and more companies than ever are investing big bucks and a lot of energy into developing their quantitative teams. We teamed up with DataScience to find out just how companies make use of this significant investment. You can check out some of their additional thoughts… Read more »
Check out the updated results in our latest 2017 SAS, R, or Python survey and find out which tool data scientists and predictive analytics pros really prefer! For many quantitative business professionals, the debate around analytics tools has been known to rival the enthusiasm of political conversations at Thanksgiving dinner. Over the past two years… Read more »
Recently, several companies, including Facebook, announced they would be offering extended paid leave for new parents. I found myself wondering, which industries are most likely to dole out untraditional perks like this to their data analytics teams? Tech companies may seem like the obvious choice, but there are certainly many other companies that offer up… Read more »
Check out the updated results in our latest 2017 SAS, R, or Python survey and find out which tool data scientists and predictive analytics pros really prefer! As some of you may know, last month we conducted a flash survey of our network of analytics professionals and data scientists to try to quantify their… Read more »
About 18 months ago (in August 2013) we conducted a “flash survey” of our network of over 10,000 analytics professionals and data scientists to determine how often they were approached by recruiters on LinkedIn, and how often they responded to recruiters’ requests. The results, while interesting, also hinted at a larger problem within “Big Data… Read more »
