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Data Scientists

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Develop and implement a set of techniques or analytics applications to transform raw data into meaningful information using data-oriented programming languages and visualization software. Apply data mining, data modeling, natural language processing, and machine learning to extract and analyze information from large structured and unstructured datasets. Visualize, interpret, and report data findings. May create dynamic data reports.

10 main tasks · most important first

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01Analyze, manipulate, or process large sets of data using statistical software.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
02Create graphs, charts, or other visualizations to convey the results of data analysis using specialized software.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
03Test, validate, and reformulate models to ensure accurate prediction of outcomes of interest.AI could speed this up a lot
04Deliver oral or written presentations of the results of mathematical modeling and data analysis to management or other end users.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
05Recommend data-driven solutions to key stakeholders.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
06Identify business problems or management objectives that can be addressed through data analysis.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
07Compare models using statistical performance metrics, such as loss functions or proportion of explained variance.AI could speed this up a lot
08Clean and manipulate raw data using statistical software.AI could speed this up a lot
09Identify solutions to business problems, such as budgeting, staffing, and marketing decisions, using the results of data analysis.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
10Apply feature selection algorithms to models predicting outcomes of interest, such as sales, attrition, and healthcare use.AI could speed this up a lot

Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.

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O*NET 31.0 Database, US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), 2026-08. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (observed exposure), Anthropic, 2026-03-05. Licence: CC BY.

Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations (v1.1), Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025-12. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

GPTs are GPTs: labor market impact potential of LLMs (Science, 2024), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023. Licence: MIT.

What work can robots do? (robot exposure index), Anthropic, 2026-09-30. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

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