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Every job that involves data in any way is being relabeled a data science job. Most of them are just generating dashboards and posters in Excel or Tableau for

Every job that involves data in any way is being relabeled a data science job. Most of them are just generating dashboards and posters in Excel or Tableau for people who are data illiterate. I know many people with maths/stats/comp-sci backgrounds who end up in these sorts of jobs. “Just add a bunch of green up arrows and red down arrows, your manager will love it” was advice from a co-worker of mine. Sadly, she was right.

amrx101 9y ago
This. You are exactly right. I work for a startup not in anyway related to Data Science or ML etc. We use Python here. My flatmates work for a big named DataScience company and most of the time its numpy and a bit of data visualisation.Pandas and Numpy to the rescue. I am like dude, I can do that in blink.
PhasmaFelis 9y ago
Where can I get a job like that? I'd be happy to take it at this point.
Natsu 9y ago
In an engineering class, when dealing with a problem about factories that produce widgets and consume resources/widgets from other machines, I made a complex Excel spreadsheet that was animated to pass little numbers around that represented the items produced or consumed. It didn't actually give correct results, I'm not sure it could have worked (I needed to do two updates on the same cycle and never did figure out how), and I documented that it was buggy. But it looked cool and I got good marks. So my experience pretty much agrees with yours.
wakkaflokka 9y ago
It's actually become somewhat hilarious to me. Like you said, the data science label is being applied quite liberally (no judgment, I'm not the world's authority on how it should be applied), so here you have companies paying $100k or more to have people do Excel work or Tableau visualizations.
- toomuchtodo 9y ago
  "Data scientist" is the new "business analyst".
  - kwillets 9y ago
    I think data science moved into the hole where analysis used to be.
madman2890 9y ago
Haha, so much yes.
kwillets 9y ago
Data engineering as well.

amrx101 9y ago

This. You are exactly right. I work for a startup not in anyway related to Data Science or ML etc. We use Python here. My flatmates work for a big named DataScience company and most of the time its numpy and a bit of data visualisation.Pandas and Numpy to the rescue. I am like dude, I can do that in blink.

PhasmaFelis 9y ago

Where can I get a job like that? I'd be happy to take it at this point.

Natsu 9y ago

In an engineering class, when dealing with a problem about factories that produce widgets and consume resources/widgets from other machines, I made a complex Excel spreadsheet that was animated to pass little numbers around that represented the items produced or consumed. It didn't actually give correct results, I'm not sure it could have worked (I needed to do two updates on the same cycle and never did figure out how), and I documented that it was buggy. But it looked cool and I got good marks. So my experience pretty much agrees with yours.

wakkaflokka 9y ago

It's actually become somewhat hilarious to me. Like you said, the data science label is being applied quite liberally (no judgment, I'm not the world's authority on how it should be applied), so here you have companies paying $100k or more to have people do Excel work or Tableau visualizations.

toomuchtodo 9y ago
"Data scientist" is the new "business analyst".
- kwillets 9y ago
  I think data science moved into the hole where analysis used to be.

madman2890 9y ago

Haha, so much yes.

kwillets 9y ago

Data engineering as well.