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I work for a technical statistical team in the financial world, we've been hiring PHDs lately to my team which has just meant exactly what this comment points o
by carlmcqueen 9y ago
I work for a technical statistical team in the financial world, we've been hiring PHDs lately to my team which has just meant exactly what this comment points out.
I do a lot of the grunt work of getting the data sourced, cleaned and ready and am called the 'data wizard' and other such annoying names.
What's frustrating is I can run the last lines of code and read and understand the output of the last step, but as the original question asked, management would prefer someone with a phd or masters in customer analytics to be the expert of the data output.
- watty 9y agoSounds more like a "data monkey" (no offense)
- alexpetralia 9y agoData monkey or data engineer? #loadedlanguage
- venture_lol 9y agoData Sanitation Engineering
- maxwin 9y agoIt sucks that you are doing the boring data cleansing job. And those people with degrees do the more interesting higher level analysis.
- stuffedBelly 9y agoThat's actually quite common, especially in financial industry. I work at a financial company and do the same line of work building data management tools/ETL systems that provide data to researchers on demand. There are many interesting challenges but a lot of grunt work too. Many of my teammates have CFA certs and math + CS degree (though non-PhDs) so majority of them are definitely capable of performing high-level analysis/financial modeling. However, only a few are needed to do research, the rest implementing and maintaining data infrastructure, which is quite a lot of work and needs more head counts.
- debacle 9y agoData cleansing + pipelining requires a certain degree of cleverness.