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'Data Science' Is Dead

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the data-however-is-the-lucasian-chair dept.

Nerval's Lobster writes "If you're going to make up a cool-sounding job title for yourself, 'Data Scientist' seems to fit the bill. When you put 'Data Scientist' on your resume, recruiters perk up, don't they? Go to the Strata conference and look on the jobs board — every company wants to hire Data Scientists. Time to jump aboard that bandwagon, right? Wrong, argues Miko Matsumura in a new column. 'Not only is Data Science not a science, it's not even a good job prospect,' he writes. 'Companies continue to burn millions of dollars to collect and gamely pick through the data under respective roofs. What's the time-to-value of the average "Big Data" project? How about "Never?"' After the 'Big Data' buzz cools a bit, he argues, it will be clear to everyone that 'Data Science' is dead and the job function of 'Data Scientist' will have jumped the shark."

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  1. Strong claim by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's a very strong claim, I'll need to consult my Data Scientist to see if it actually fits the data.

  2. FUD by aBaldrich · · Score: 5, Funny

    How to prevent more people from flocking into your field:

    1) Write a Slashdot article
    2) ???
    3) Profit!

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    In soviet russia the government regulates the companies.
    1. Re:FUD by tomhath · · Score: 3, Funny

      According to this guy, Mathematics is not a science because you don't conduct experiments.

      He's obviously wrong. Try this experiment - it proves addition:

      # python

      # print 1+1

      # 2