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I am not looking to move right now but I still have a couple of job searches saved from before and everything it seems is data science, machine learning, big da
by gaius 8y ago
I am not looking to move right now but I still have a couple of job searches saved from before and everything it seems is data science, machine learning, big data etc now. Even jobs that are very obviously Excel or similar and paying accordingly.
- rjsw 8y agoIt is also difficult to get any funding or interest in what I would call "medium data".
- rspeer 8y agoEven though every nearly every enterprise runs on medium data, and can't admit it because that would make them seem inferior to their competitors, who they think have big data.
- gaius 8y agoI remember when we used to just call that “data”
- gaius 8y agoI suspect a smart engineer can make the vast majority of big data problems fit in memory by appropriate filtering and pre-processing but you’d never get your purchase order for that 200-node Hadoop cluster approved if you admitted it...
- currymj 8y ago“It takes a big man to admit his data is small.”
- mr_toad 8y agoSometimes those terms are added to advertisements to attract people who want to be doing those things, not because they are actual job requirements.
- gaius 8y agoAlso known as “bait and switch”. Most job ads mentioning Haskell and OCaml are really for Java too.