Data Science used to be a purely academic discipline, of interest only to other data scientists, until it proved useful to business. I'll admit that, say, theo

Data Science used to be a purely academic discipline, of interest only to other data scientists, until it proved useful to business. I'll admit that, say, theology or philosophy are probably only ever going to provide a career path in academia. But even then, you never know. And are you really going to say to someone who has a burning ambition to study philosophy "no sorry, we're full, go study something else"?