Unfortunately a lot of the "Data Scientist" I meet are nothing more than excel / sheets gurus. Most of them have never written a line of code or syntax that is

Unfortunately a lot of the "Data Scientist" I meet are nothing more than excel / sheets gurus. Most of them have never written a line of code or syntax that is more complex than a nested vlookup. Those kinds of jobs are advertised as “data science” jobs. In fact any job that involves data manipulation at all is getting re-branded as “data science”. Partly this is employers doing a bait-and-switch to attract better candidates and partly its just jumping on the bandwagon. But candidates aren’t entirely innocent either. How many programmers - an honest title for honest work - call themselves Senior Certified Enterprise Solution Architect Team Thought Leaders or some such nonsense? We’ve all met a few. LinkedIn is crawling with them.