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You probably mean "data analyst". "Data scientist" title would apply only if you are applying scientific method to discover new fact about natural world exclus

• Twisell 9y ago
  Define natural world... And gather a consensus around your definition... Or maybe whole humanities should be considered as « not science ». Beside a data analyst that don’t use scientific method is just a bad analyst. Some media outlet showcase blatantly lying charts made by people that understand the technicals but get everything wrong about the concepts. So this is my advice, focus on understanding the concepts before the tooling. That is what will really make your value.
• sgt101 9y ago
  Designing experiments is a key part of Data Science work. Another key part is determining where & how revealing observations can be made. The analysis part is usually quite simple, often if it gets really complex then that's a sign that the data is being tortured. Sometimes the marginal gains that complex methods create (vs simple but good approaches) are not worthwhile even if they are valid - simply in terms of time spent and difficulty in communications.