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Metropolitan Area Jobs Rank Metropolitan Area Jobs
New York, NY
2122
11 Raleigh, NC
220
San Francisco, CA
1330
12 San Diego, CA
214
Boston, MA
854
13 Houston, TX
202
Washington, DC
660
14 Minneapolis, MN
187
Seattle, WA
651
15 Columbus, OH
182
Los Angeles, CA
512
16 Chicago, IL
166
Dallas, TX
443
17 Richmond, VA
164
Atlanta, GA
394
18 Denver, CO
145
Austin, TX
308
19 Detroit, MI
130
Philadelphia, PA
253
20 Phoenix, AZ
127
Table 2: 20 metropolitan areas with the most analytics jobs.
BIGGER ISN’T ALWAYS BETTER
Table 2 shows the 20 PSAs with the
greatest number of jobs. Not surprisingly, nine of the 10 largest metropolitan
areas (indicated by gra yed-out text) are
also included in this list. The “Top 10” accounted for 7,274 (or 73 percent of all)
jobs, while the “Top 20” covered 6,264
(or 80 percent of all) jobs. Not surprisingly, the distribution of analytics jobs is
skewed toward a small number of locations. Figure 1 shows a Pareto diagram
of the first 50 (sorted by number of jobs)
PSAs. Note that these locations account
for 94 percent of all listed positions.
We compute a “persons per job” metric in an attempt to determine which areas are “punching above their weight,”
and identify smaller areas that have an
unusually high (relative to their total
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population) number of analytics jobs.
This is computed by dividing the total
population by the number of analytics
job listings within the CSA. As shown in
Table 3, Platteville, Wis., leads in this
category with roughly one analytics job
opening for every 800 people; keep
in mind that this includes people of all
ages, including children too young to
work and retirees, not just those eligible
for work. This compares to an overall
average (for those areas with at least
one advertised position) of one opening
per 122,000 people. So, some areas are
a more “target rich environment” than
others for job hunters. While looking at
some of these smaller areas that provide more “bang for the buck” (in terms
of the number of analytics jobs relative to the population) may seem wise,
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