The Data Science Sentinel (January 2026)

Colleagues, our goal is to provide Data Scientists and Engineers with up-to-date and actionable information to advance your career and income growth, including Product Launches & Innovations, Data Science and AI, Featured Resources, Events, and Career Development (professional certifications and training programs). Based on SkyQuest “Global High Performance Data Analytics Market size was valued at USD 54.44 Billion in 2024 and is poised to grow from USD 59.4 Billion in 2025 to USD 119.22 Billion by 2033, growing at a CAGR of 9.1% during the forecast period (2026–2033).” In addition Levels.fyi estimated average annual salaries for Data Scientists in 2026 at $172,000.

Product Launches & Innovations:

• Anthropic Claude 5 (March-February, Virtual) 

• Azure AI Foundry Agent Service (Q1, Virtual)

• Kaggle Community Benchmarks (Jan 15,Online)

• Meta Llama 4 "Behemoth" - GA (Q1, Menlo Park)

• xAI Grok 3 (Feb, Online)

Data Science & AI:

• AI and Data Scientist Job Market in 2026: Analysis, Trends, Opportunities (Medium)

• AI and Data Strategy in 2026: What Leaders Need to Get Right (Analytics8)

• Annual State of Data Science & AI Report (Anaconda)

• EY AI & Data Challenge (EY)

• Five Trends in AI and Data Science for 2026 (MIT Sloan Management Review)

Events: 

• AI & Big Data Expo Global (London, Feb 4-5)

• Data Science & AI Summit (Dubai, Feb 9-10 & London, June 16-17)

• Data Science Salon - GenAI & Agents (Austin, Feb 18)

• ODSC AI 2026 (Boston, April 28-29)

Career Development - Boost Your Income by 5%-10%:

• Applied Data Science Specialization 

• Data Analytics Professional Certificate 

• Data Engineering, Big Data, and Machine Learning on GCP Specialization

• Data Engineering Foundations

• Data Engineering on AWS - Foundations

• Data Engineering with Microsoft Azure

• Data Engineering with AWS - Nanodegree Program

• Data Science: Foundations using R Specialization

• Data Science Fundamentals with Python and SQL Specialization

• Data Science Specialization

• Data Structures

• Data Structures, Algorithms, and Machine Learning Optimization

• Data Visualization with Tableau Specialization

• Data Science with Python and R

• Foundations: Data, Data, Everywhere

• Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate 

• IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate

• IBM Data Engineering Professional Certificate

• IBM Data Science Professional Certificate

• Meta Database Engineer Professional Certificate

• Python Project for Data Engineering

• Python Data Visualization

• Snowflake Data Engineering Professional Certificate

• Understanding Data Science 

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