The Business Review wrote an article about a team from Columbia University who won first place at this year's New York Business Plan Competition at The University at Albany.

Data science has been called the sexiest job in the 21st century, and by most accounts this hot new field promises to revolutionize industries from business to government, health care to academia.

Rachel Schutt, a senior research scientist at Johnson Research Labs, taught “Introduction to Data Science” last semester at Columbia. She described the data scientist this way: “a hybrid computer scientist software engineer statistician.” And added: “The best tend to be really curious people, thinkers who ask good questions and are O.K. dealing with unstructured situations and trying to find structure in them.”