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I've never seen a "data scientist" produce anything meaningful, at least at my company. They run some data through some Python framework and produce weird meani
by PopsiclePete 9y ago
I've never seen a "data scientist" produce anything meaningful, at least at my company. They run some data through some Python framework and produce weird meaningless numbers that I'm supposed to be impressed by or to trust. No insight as to how that number came to be. "87.525%". Ok sweet. Could've come from /dev/urandom for all I know. At least 3 of them have left in the 2 years that I've been here.
It seems like 90% of these guys are buzzword wankers who jumped onto the "Big $$$" bandwagon. Same type of person who put "PHP Wizard" on their resume in 2005.
Good riddance.
I'm sure, of course, that quite a few of them are decent, intelligent people producing real value at real companies. But the ones I've dealt with? Nah.
- jackcosgrove 9y agoI don't think data scientists are thinking about "Big $$$". I think many of them are PhD students who are leaving academia, voluntarily or not, and data science is a logical first job.
- RHSman2 9y agoYou sound like a decent person. Perhaps they left because of you?
- PopsiclePete 9y agoIn a company that's thousands of people large, across 5 continents, I have the power to make dozens of people, most of whom I've never communicated with outside of the occasional email, leave? I basically have superpowers. Like I said, I'm sure "data science" as a science is great, and I'm sure there's plenty of "data scientists" that I would love to sit down and talk with and learn from. I just have never met any.