Increased marketability

Data science is clearly an ever-evolving field, with exponentially growing popularity. In fact, I'd guess that if you ask a dozen professionals, you'll most likely receive a dozen different definitions of what a data scientist is (and their place within a project or organization), but most likely, all would agree with their level of importance and that vast numbers of opportunities exist within the industry and the world today.

Data Scientist is relatively hard to find today. If you do your research, you will find that today's data scientists may have a mixed background consisting of mathematics, programming, and software design, experimental design, engineering, communication, and management skills. In practice, you'll see that most data scientists you find aren't specialists in any one aspect, rather they possess varying levels of proficiency in several areas or backgrounds.