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  Data science, analytics, and machine learning are growing at an astronomical rate and companies are now looking for professionals who can sift through the goldmine of data and help them drive swift business decisions efficiently.  IBM  predicts that by 2020, the number of jobs for all U.S. data professionals will increase by 364,000 openings to 2,720,000. We caught up with Eric Taylor, Senior Data Scientist at CircleUp, in a Simplilearn Fireside Chat to find out what makes data science and data analytics such an exciting field and what skills will help professionals gain a strong foothold in this fast-growing domain. What is Data Science? People have tried to define data science for over a decade now, and the best way to answer the question is via a Venn diagram. Created by Hugh Conway in 2010, this Venn diagram consists of three circles: math and statistics, subject expertise (knowledge about the domain to abstract and calculate), and hacking skills. Essentially if you can do all t