Across industries, organizations are increasing their hiring efforts to build larger data science arsenals: from 2020 to 2021, the percentage of surveyed organizations that employed 50 data scientists or more increased from 30 percent to almost 60 percent. On average, the number of data scientists employed in a organization grew from 28 to 50.
Number of data scientists employed in companies worldwide in 2020 and 2021
individuals with a level of insight into the machine learning efforts of their companies across a random sampling of industries and machine learning maturity levels
Supplementary notes
Categories do not add up to 100% because they have been rounded to the nearest percentage point.
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