New Breed of Super Quants at NYU Prep for Wall Street
- MIT and Harvard to follow with degree programs in 2018
- Universities aim to shape the role of a data scientist
In the near absence of degree programs, investment firms must sort through the wannabes and find skilled data scientists from fields like physics and math.
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Data scientist.
It may be the hottest job title on Wall Street. It’s also the most ill-defined. The ginned-up name didn’t really exist a decade ago and today almost anyone with some coding or data know-how can claim the “scientist” mantle.