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Who’s doing the most innovative things in data science? Where is the profession going? And most importantly, what can you learn from some of the brightest in the business?

Businesses are increasingly betting big on data science for ambitious near-term growth, just one more indication that the rapidly rising profession is making itself a huge force for innovation in fields as diverse as healthcare & pharma, defense, insurance, and financial services. Nearly half of respondents in a recent poll said that their company’s leadership expects data science efforts to produce double-digit revenue growth. A similar survey in 2021 put that same figure at only 25%, indicating growing expectations for the young profession.

"The data science universe is expanding,” Google’s Chief Decision Scientist Cassie Kozyrkov told an audience of more than 700, composed mostly of data scientists, data science leaders and IT directors, on the second day of the Rev 3 conference on data science and its world-changing impact around the globe. And the very presence of so many attendees–total conference registrations were pushing 1,000 on the final morning of the event–bore testament that the profession is growing in size, power, and prestige.

The emerging power of data science to run the world–long partially obscured even to the individual practitioners of the craft–was on full display on the opening day of the far-ranging Rev 3 conference in New York City this week, and it felt like the debutante ball for a young profession.