You may have noticed that Harvard Business Review is calling data science “the sexiest job of the 21st century.” So our answer to the question is: Hot. Definitely hot. 

If you need an explanation, watch the “Definition of a Data Scientist” talk embedded below from Cloudera data science director Josh Wills, which was hosted by Cloudera partner Lilien LLC recently in Portland, Ore. The key take-away is, you don’t literally have to be a “scientist,” just someone with the curiosity of one.