In many organizations today, if you're a leader in marketing, sales, manufacturing, or operations, data is still someone else's problem. If you need help making sense of data, you can send a request to the data team, and hopefully, a data specialist will be available to help you eventually. For data professionals who are on the receiving end, there's a certain power in being the go-to person who can uncover insights no one else can. When Thomas H. Davenport and DJ Patil wrote in their influential 2012 Harvard Business Review article that data science is "the sexiest job of the 21st century," it is not hard to see why.