Also called: Health Data Scientist
Mines data from patients, labs, and health records to find patterns that improve medicine.
Cleans messy hospital data, builds a model predicting which patients will be readmitted, and makes dashboards for doctors.
BLS data scientists, May 2024. Median from BLS; 10th/90th percentiles estimated.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Master's degree, about 6 years after high school. Bachelor's or master's in data science, statistics, or computer science.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school, Self-taught. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science.
Growing much faster than average (about 34% over 10 years). BLS 2024-34 data scientists.
Medium risk in 5 years, high in 10. AI tools now clean data and build standard models; fewer entry data-science jobs, more for people who know medicine well.
Classes: AP Statistics, AP Computer Science, AP Biology.
Official data: O*NET occupation 15-2051.
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