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CrowdFlower Report Reveals: Data Scientists Say Messy Data and Lack of Time for Analysis Are Their Top Career Obstacles

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- Feb 10, 2015 -- CrowdFlower ( www.crowdflower.com), the leading data enrichment platform for data scientists, today released its 2015 Data Scientist Report ( http://goo.gl/XavwZr). Findings revealed that data scientists saw messy, disorganized data as a major hurdle preventing them from doing what they find most interesting in their jobs: predictive analysis and data mining for behavioral patterns and future trends. The majority of data scientists surveyed also acknowledged the skills shortage within their field.

Salient findings of the report uncover what is and isn't working in the data science field. These findings include:

"We know that data scientists are valuable for their companies, but there's still a disconnect between what they actually do and what they want to do," said Lukas Biewald, co-founder and CEO of CrowdFlower. "At the end of the day, the time they invest in cleaning data is time that could be better spent doing strategic, creative work like predictive analysis or data mining. If companies can give data scientists some of that data cleaning time back, they'll have happier teams that can focus on really exciting things."

Download the CrowdFlower 2015 Data Scientist Report and "Data Behind Today's Data Scientists" Infographic

Survey Methodology
A total of 153 General Population respondents from CrowdFlower's online research panel completed the survey. Respondents work for companies of varied sizes and sectors, mostly in the U.S. All respondents have "data scientist" in their job title or job description on LinkedIn.

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About CrowdFlower
Founded in 2009, CrowdFlower is the leading data enrichment platform for data scientists. Its quality-control technology is the most accurate and fastest way to collect, label, and clean data from an on-demand workforce. The platform automates the management of these online contributors to tackle tasks that require human intelligence such as search relevance tuning, data categorization, image annotation, metadata creation, sentiment analysis, transcription and de-duplication. Backed by Trinity Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Harmony Partners and Canvas Venture Fund, CrowdFlower has over 150 customers including Unilever, Autodesk, eBay, Edelman, YP.com and VoiceBox.

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