> My advice is simple: no. What you should probably do is make sure you understand how to do basic math, know how to write a basic SQL query, and understand how

> My advice is simple: no. What you should probably do is make sure you understand how to do basic math, know how to write a basic SQL query, and understand how a business works and what it needs to succeed. There is an assumption here that people want to work with data and would be happy doing simple SQL queries with sums. It's good that the author is happy with their job, but I I don't know how "having highly trained people doing menial tasks" is a good thing. I think that most people who want to get into "data science" don't just want to write SQL queries and do simple arithmetic, but are interested because of all the recent advances in computing that have made machine learning more tractable. If the best they can hope for is to be doing SQL and simple arithmetic, then maybe there just aren't enough interesting jobs and the advice should be to avoid the profession entirely.