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Pius Odhiambo. He is a data scientist at Blue Nile Analytica. [File, Standard]

Mr Odhiambo noted that to lower the cost of hiring data scientists, Blue Nile Analytica has categorised universities into groups where data scientists can be shared.

He adds that data science should be approached as a second degree.

"Some universities have tried training data scientists for four years but that is too expensive and the economy will suffer. We are coming up with short courses of about six months to one year so that we can put them into the job market as quickly as possible."