{"id":33986,"date":"2013-10-31T15:13:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T15:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/during-another-session-data-scientist-the\/"},"modified":"2013-10-31T15:13:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T15:13:33","slug":"during-another-session-data-scientist-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/during-another-session-data-scientist-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>During another session, \u201cData Scientist: the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century,\u201d Mr. Reed argued that \u201cdata scientist as a profession is largely a fad.\u201d Asked a question about undergraduate education, Mr. Reed struggled to answer. When it comes to hiring, he said, undergraduate education generally \u201cdoes not matter.\u201d \u201cI usually hire people who have very exemplary work experience,\u201d said Mr. Reed, who now runs a Chicago-based start-up company devoted to mobile commerce. \u201cWhere they went to school, or what degree they have, really has no play into the hiring decision. Myself, I have a philosophy degree and a fake computer-science degree. I say fake because I really didn\u2019t learn anything.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/big-data-is-bunk-obama-campaigns-tech-guru-tells-university-leaders\/47885?cid=wc&amp;utm_source=wc&amp;utm_medium=en\">&lsquo;Big Data&rsquo; Is Bunk, Obama Campaign&rsquo;s Tech Guru Tells University Leaders &#8211; Wired Campus &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During another session, \u201cData Scientist: the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century,\u201d Mr. Reed argued that \u201cdata scientist as a profession is largely a fad.\u201d Asked a question about undergraduate education, Mr. Reed struggled to answer. When it comes to hiring, he said, undergraduate education generally \u201cdoes not matter.\u201d \u201cI usually hire people who have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-33986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8Qa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}