Suzette Kent: Data science talent will be the next big need for agencies

FedScoop: For all of the recent focus on the cybersecurity talent shortages in the federal government, Suzette Kent said Wednesday that agencies will soon be battling for another in-demand skill set to help fuel its technology transformation: data science.

While the workforce transformation and IT modernization goals of the President’s Management Agenda are essential, they are undergirded by agencies’ ability to analyze troves of government data, the federal CIO said at the Data Coalition’s Data Demo Day.

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