The demand for creative, technically-skilled data scientists in the United States is growing at a rapid pace such that—although the demand for data scientists is booming—our ability to train students to fill those jobs is falling behind. There is also a growing concern that technical skill alone is insufficient for long-term data science career success, partially due to the fact that many data science tasks are being automated. A 2015 poll of professional data scientists, that found that, “most expert-level predictive analytics/data science tasks [are expected to] be automated by 2025. To stay employed, Data Scientists should focus on developing skills that are harder to automate, like business understanding, explanation, and story telling.