Can crowdsourcing mitigate a dearth of data scientists for banks? by Penny Crosman via @infomgmt

Data scientists from NASA, Google and hundreds of other places are working for financial firms in their spare time. Is this a good idea?

I would add to this that Data Scientists and those studying to become one also enter competitions on the Kaggle platform which a) might win them a prize but b) also fixes a need set by the organisation who has submitted it.