> Is the industry saturated with data scientists already?
No :)
> Did all the talk of data science being the "sexiest" job cause the market to become saturated
No :)
> is it still a viable career path?
Yes
Source:
a) I Co-run the Data Science Weekly newsletter.
b) I was a mod of https://www.reddit.com/r/datascience/ from 15k to 30k members and people were asking that about 5 to 6 years ago. The sub now has ~829k members and that question still comes up.
> The number of opportunities also seem to be dwindling
The reason for this is that initial it was "data science", then it was "data science and machine learning researcher", then it was "data science and data engineerings and machine learning researcher", then it was "ai, data scientists, machine learning researcher, machine learning engineering, data engineer, nlp", etc. So the jobs have multiplied but so have the position titles as well. So while you could just search for data scientist positions before you now have to get a bit more specific.
> Did all the talk of data science being the "sexiest" job cause the market to become saturated No :)
> is it still a viable career path? Yes
Source:
a) I Co-run the Data Science Weekly newsletter.
b) I was a mod of https://www.reddit.com/r/datascience/ from 15k to 30k members and people were asking that about 5 to 6 years ago. The sub now has ~829k members and that question still comes up.
> The number of opportunities also seem to be dwindling The reason for this is that initial it was "data science", then it was "data science and machine learning researcher", then it was "data science and data engineerings and machine learning researcher", then it was "ai, data scientists, machine learning researcher, machine learning engineering, data engineer, nlp", etc. So the jobs have multiplied but so have the position titles as well. So while you could just search for data scientist positions before you now have to get a bit more specific.