The consulting company McKinsey recently released a report arguing that the need for computational and data scientists – that is, workers who can successfully analyze, model, and interpret data, and use it to inform critical business decisions - is going to grow rapidly. A wide range of industries now use computational modeling and data analytics to inform many aspects of their day-to-day practices, encompassing a range of activities that include product design, optimizing manufacturing processes, hiring decisions, and choosing advertising targets. The trend is clear, as are the implications for new employees – being fluent in the tools used to work with data and computational models, as well as to be intelligent consumers of the products of these tools, will be a critical and highly demanded skillset.