Surveying LinkedIn Profiles of Data Scientists: The Case of the Philippines

The talent pool of data scientists in the Philippines is geared to be increased. The extant literature has analyzed the skills needed from data scientists through analyzing online job posting and industry reports. This study surveys the LinkedIn profiles of 100 data scientists from various Philippine-based companies taking a closer look on their featured skills. Results indicated that data scientists are experienced professionals with advanced degrees possessing skills on data processing or data visualization, programming language, statistical packages, office applications and databases. Data scientists appear to be closely related to statisticians but also showed affinity to big data. Further studies are directed to develop a tool to automate extracting of data from the LinkedIn profiles and to periodically conduct skills requirements research.