Also called: Data Services Librarian
Helps university researchers and students find, organize, manage and share data, teaching workshops and helping publish datasets.
Teaches grad students to organize their data, helps a professor publish a dataset, and finds government statistics for a student project.
Estimate.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Master's degree, about 6 years after high school. A bachelor's in a science or social science, then an ALA-accredited MLIS with a focus on data curation and some coding skills.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $60k – $150k.
Majors to look at: Library Science, Statistics, Data Science.
Growing about average (about 4% over 10 years). Estimate.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. Automation helps manage data, but teaching researchers good data habits stays human consulting.
Classes: AP Statistics, AP Computer Science, AP Research.
Official data: O*NET occupation 25-4022.
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