Data science career path — Kearney, NE

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What the assessment measures

280 items in five modules — what you love to do, how you work, fifteen STEM working traits, thirty real situations, and where you want your work to land — matched against forty careers in eight families. Then a sixth module drafts your mission, vision and values in your own words. Progress saves as you go; it is free and complete today.

Data science career path. A path has a start, a direction and a destination. The assessment gives the direction, the career pages the destination, and the STEM Farm track the start at zero. Data science is the fastest-growing STEM career in the BLS projection, +34% for 2024–34. It runs on curiosity, skepticism, communication and a real affinity for numbers.

Careers the Kearney, NE economy leans on

10 counties across Nebraska; 0 metro. Economies: 6 farming, 1 manufacturing and 1 tourism and recreation. Flags: 8 population loss.

Data Scientist+34%Statistician+8%

Counties in this labor market

Buffalo County, NE Dawson County, NE Franklin County, NE Frontier County, NE Furnas County, NE Gosper County, NE Harlan County, NE Kearney County, NE Phelps County, NE Sherman County, NE

Metros around Kearney, NE

Omaha, NE–IA10 counties Lincoln, NE6 counties Sioux City, IA–NE–SD6 counties Cheyenne, WY6 counties Grand Island, NE7 counties Norfolk, NE6 counties North Platte, NE6 counties Alliance, NE5 counties Columbus, NE5 counties Hastings, NE5 counties McCook, NE5 counties O'Neill, NE5 counties

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Questions people ask

How is a "data science career path" different from a personality type test?

A type test gives you a label. STEM Compass gives you a profile on fifteen working traits and eight kinds of impact, then a directional match against each career — a number you can explain, not a letter code.

Does it cost anything?

No. The full assessment is open at tienesesto.org/stem-assessment, and every result links to a STEM Farm track that starts from zero.

Sources. Career traits, education paths and value lines are the STEM Compass assessment library. Employment growth is U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2024–2034. County economic types are USDA Economic Research Service County Typology Codes (2025); labor markets are Census commuting zones (2020). Salary is not shown anywhere in this campaign on purpose: the assessment measures fit and what the work is worth to the world.