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Yes I think so. At our place all data scientist/big data types are given high end MBPs and >2 good quality 4K monitors. All other typical IT devs are given a l
by geodel 8y ago
Yes I think so. At our place all data scientist/big data types are given high end MBPs and >2 good quality 4K monitors. All other typical IT devs are given a low-end 15W HP laptop and 2 HD monitors again from HP. Low quality Windows machines have been mandated right from top IT leadership. So I think data scientists are important enough if they can override or get exception to standard issue hardware/software.
- twa927 8y agoThat's interesting, I'm wondering if this happens also to e.g. "Cloud Specialists" or happened to "Object Orientation Specialists" 20 years ago...
- geodel 8y agoMaybe. But I think it is mainly due to expensive ass consultants selling management the idea of deriving deep insights out of terabytes of application logs. And since it is about big data so big hardware seems natural to management. Regarding OO Specialists I remember in J2EE heydays stodgy Weblogic/Websphere tools would take 2GB RAM when 256MB was more of standard. So management would approve this configuration for important enterprise projects done in J2EE.