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You hear all the time that it is very hard to find and hire a great data scientist. Yet these scientists can't find a job, and are typically unemployed for many months after graduating or after being laid off - even those with 15 years of experience and stellar degree and accomplishments. 

So what's the problem? I'm suggesting a few possibilities:

• Candidates lack business acumen
• Candidates have poor communication skills, are asking too much…

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In a nutshell, are great analytic people lacking creative skills? And are great creators lacking analytic skills? How to fix this gap?

Here are a few interesting questions:

• Should analytic people focus on measuring, and nothing else? 
• Do analytic people lack business skills because they were odd kids in high school, because the way the school system is working in US?
• Is it impossible to hire great analytic people combining both soft and hard skills, because…

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You type in a domain name, say www.wellsfargo.com in your browser (say Chrome), and a website with broken links, broken images and badly formatted text, shows up. When you click on any link, it "redirects" you to what seems to be a true Wells Fargo page. You try with a different browser (say IE), and you experience the same problem. You visit finance.yahoo.com, and you get an 310 error message saying "recursive redirect found on the web page". You do a…

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