45% of U.S. Data Scientists Work at Just 20 Companies (opens in new tab)

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44 pointsGaussian1y ago9 comments

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Microsoft Apple Alphabet Amazon Meta JP Morgan Walmart Unitedhealth Oracle Accenture Pfizer IBM Uber Intel Citi Paypal Capital One Ford Iqvia Cognizant

-- Hearing about Iqvia for the first time. It appears data/marketing analytics company for healthcare industry.

kprybol1y ago

IQVIA is a Global CRO with like 80-90k employees. They do two things really well. Running clinical trials (Phases I-IV) and vacuuming up healthcare data (claims, EMR, sales, etc., https://www.iqvia.com/insights/the-iqvia-institute/available...)

DilutedMetrics1y ago

> Note: This examination looked at companies in the S&P 500.

cmeacham981y ago

Are you implying you believe there are additional companies outside of the S&P 500 that employ a significant percentage of data scientists?

pennomi1y ago

It could be a substantial long tail. Hard to know without the data.

alevizcaino1y ago

Great content! It is interesting to see all the names; as far as I know, at least 3-4 companies use massive talent from LATAM in the Data-AI space.

holtzeidler1y ago

Wouldn’t have guessed but probably shouldn’t be surprised

scottrig1y ago

Interesting data re: consolidation of talent (in addition to parallel themes of consolidation of compute, LLMs, etc.)

justinsheridan1y ago

Super interesting!

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