203: There’s No More Data Analyst Jobs
Data Career Podcast: Helping You Land a Data Analyst Job FAST
Intro
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Everyone says data analyst jobs are gone. Here's the actual evidence that proves them wrong.
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⌚ TIMESTAMPS
00:21 – Who's lying to you
03:32 – 180 million job postings
06:03 – Jobs are actually growing
07:32 – Top jobs of the next 5 years
08:14 – 4th fastest growing career
10:02 – Even software jobs bounced back
11:08 – They said this in 2013 too
14:06 – Don't panic
📚 SOURCES
📊 Bloomberg – I Analyzed 180M Jobs to See What AI Is Actually Replacing (Jan 2023–Oct 2025): https://bloomberry.com/blog/i-analyzed-180m-jobs-to-see-what-jobs-ai-is-actually-replacing-today/#bullet1
📈 Live Data Technologies: https://livedatatechnologies.com
🌍 World Economic Forum – Fastest Growing & Declining Jobs: https://euronews.com/business/2025/02/01/jobs-market-at-a-crossroads-which-are-the-fastest-growing-and-declining-jobs
🏛️ Bureau of Labor Statistics – Data Scientists, 4th Fastest Growing Occupation: https://bls.gov/ooh/math/data-scientists.htm#tab-6
✍️ Is Data Science Dead in 10 Years? (2021): https://medium.com/data-science/is-data-science-dead-in-10-years-3cde3963552
🔮 Gartner – More Than 40% of Data Science Tasks Will Be Automated by 2020 (2017): https://gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2017-01-16-gartner-says-more-than-40-percent-of-data-science-tasks-will-be-automated-by-2020
💬 Is Data Science Getting Overcrowded? Reddit (2016): https://reddit.com/r/datascience/comments/781wwu/is_data_science_getting_overcrowded/
🤖 Will Data Scientists Be Automated by 2025? (2015): https://kdnuggets.com/2015/05/data-scientists-automated-2025.html
💥 The Bursting of the Big Data Bubble (2013): https://mathbabe.org/2013/09/20/the-bursting-of-the-big-data-bubble/
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