Virtually every job posting I see for data professionals mentions a bachelor's in pure or applied math as one of the preferred degrees, along with comp-sci, stats and a few others. Many say that they prefer a master's but bachelors in math is almost always mentioned. Why then the bearish attitude here? I think people realize that without coding skills you are in a tough place, so math alone won't get the job done, but the comp-sci stuff is frankly easy to teach yourself in short order compared to the stuff we do in math.