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Paying by Numbers—Should Data Scientists Receive Performance Based Compensation?

February 8, 2015 By editor

Learning Tree International just published another of my articles. I recently read an opinion that data analysts will start to be paid for performance. My article is presents an opposing view. While there are jobs where performance can be measured in isolation, I don’t believe that data science is one of them.

Read the article for my full argument.

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