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Analysts have been doing data science long before Data Science was a thing, unless i am missing something, it's a rebranding of tasks that have always been perf
by semantic_x 7y ago
Analysts have been doing data science long before Data Science was a thing, unless i am missing something, it's a rebranding of tasks that have always been performed.
- zwkrt 7y agoMy grandfather was an “analyst” for GE, which involved a lot of physical calculation, but also FORTRAN and COBOL. It used to be before programming became its own profession that managers, accountants, secretaries, and other disparate jobs were just expected to program off-handedly. It’s interesting that we’re somehow in the same place again, but in reverse, having to make new names for jobs that involve programming but not “software engineering”