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Data Scientists
Computer & Mathematical · SOC 15-2051
46.1% AI Exposure — Very High
$120,230
Median Annual Salary
Average
O*NET Outlook
—
Proj. Annual Openings
262,440
Employment (OEWS 2025)
54/100
AI Resiliency Score
AI exposure from the Anthropic Economic Index (2025); salary from BLS; skills from O*NET. See /sources.
AI Exposure Analysis
AI Exposure46.1%
AI Resiliency54/100
Exposure BandVery High
Sector Avg. Exposure39.7%
Top Skills
1.Reading Comprehension
2.Critical Thinking
3.Critical Thinking
4.Active Listening
5.Speaking
O*NET occupation profile
What this work involves
Develop and implement a set of techniques or analytics applications to transform raw data into meaningful information using data-oriented programming languages and visualization software. Apply data mining, data modeling, natural language processing, and machine learning to extract and analyze information from large structured and unstructured datasets. Visualize, interpret, and report data findings. May create dynamic data reports.
Representative Tasks
- •Analyze, manipulate, or process large sets of data using statistical software.
- •Apply feature selection algorithms to models predicting outcomes of interest, such as sales, attrition, and healthcare use.
- •Apply sampling techniques to determine groups to be surveyed or use complete enumeration methods.
- •Clean and manipulate raw data using statistical software.
- •Compare models using statistical performance metrics, such as loss functions or proportion of explained variance.
Detailed Work Activities
- •Apply mathematical principles or statistical approaches to solve problems in scientific or applied fields.
- •Advise others on analytical techniques.
- •Analyze business or financial data.
- •Analyze data to identify or resolve operational problems.
- •Analyze data to identify trends or relationships among variables.
Tools & Technologies
Amazon Web Services AWS software · hotMicrosoft Azure software · hotMicrosoft PowerPoint · hotPyTorch · hotSAS · hotTensorFlow · hotThe MathWorks MATLAB · hotAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 · hotAmazon Redshift · hotApache Kafka · hot
Employment Projections & AI Exposure
0
Occupations Shown
0.0%
Avg AI Exposure
0
Bright Outlook
Sector Comparison
| Metric | This Career | Sector Average |
|---|---|---|
| AI Exposure | 46.1% | 39.7% |
| Outlook | Average | 0% Bright |
| Median Salary | $120,230 | N/A |
| AI Resiliency | 54/100 | N/A |