Data Scientist
SOC 15-2051
Data scientists turn messy data into decisions — cleaning and preparing it, building and validating statistical and machine-learning models, and explaining the result to people who will act on it. ⚠ There is no licence, no entrance examination and, for most people now working in the field, no data science degree: the occupation is older than the major.
Computer and Information Sciences — by far the largest feeder by volume: 41 Florida public institutions, 6,122 completions in 2023. Supplies the programming and systems half.