Turning Data Into Profit: How Hotel GM’s Can Apply Insights From Cutting Edge Data Scientists

the Authors | December 3, 2018

By Dr. Joshua Hayes, Allisha Miller, and Dr. David Hayes For the third year in a row, Forbes[1] reported "Data Scientist" as the best job in America. The job pays well (median base salary of $110,000), and qualified data scientists are in high demand. Currently, Amazon is actively seeking to fill its 436 data scientist vacancies and Google is trying to hire another 135 data scientists.[2] Data science and data scientists are hot… and for good reason! The role of data scientists is to help businesses increase efficiency and profits by harnessing data. According to Amazon, "Data is the lifeblood of Amazon… Big data analytics is the magic...