Yes! I feel this quite a lot, I've just finished my degree. I remember reading quite a few papers for my thesis where there is little discussion of the actual

Yes! I feel this quite a lot, I've just finished my degree. I remember reading quite a few papers for my thesis where there is little discussion of the actual data that is used, what might be graspable from the data with basic DS techniques such as PCA, clustering and such. Instead, it goes right to the model and default evaluation methods, just a table of numbers. We did have courses explaining the "around" of the whole process though, but that's not as hyped.