# Professor Vasant Dhar underscores the growing demand for workers with data analytics expertise

1 Faculty News June 21, 2016 ![BusinessBecause logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/BusinessBecause_logo.jpg?itok=HoBjU3u5)>

Excerpt from [BusinessBecause](http://www.businessbecause.com/news/mba-careers/4029/employers-snap-up-data-analytics-masters-graduates) -- "In recent years business masters students, and MBAs, have flocked... to tech employers, such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook. 'Data is their business,' said [Vasant Dhar](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasant-dhar), NYU Stern professor of data science. He added: 'The growth path for all of them is about how to obtain more and better data about people, places, \[and\] events, and to put it all together into innovative products and services.'"

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