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Ignoring the ridiculous attempt at gatekeeping, her Wikipedia page describes her as a "data scientist" and her own university uses the term "geospatial scienti

Ignoring the ridiculous attempt at gatekeeping, her Wikipedia page describes her as a "data scientist" and her own university uses the term "geospatial scientist" [1]. It also mentions she did the programming for the famous dashboard herself. Sounds like a data scientist to me. [1] https://www.syracuse.edu/stories/rebekah-jones-covid-19-dashboard/ https://www.syracuse.edu/stories/rebekah-jones-covid-19-dash...

lawnchair_larry 6y ago
It didn’t involve any programming. It’s just a BI dashboard.
- groceryheist 6y ago
  Boo gatekeeping. Knowing how to learn from complex data is the key competency!
  - jkhdigital 6y ago
    What are you people talking about, “gatekeeping”? Do you personally know Ms. Jones or something? If her job title included “data scientist” then great, let’s call her that.
    - JPKab 6y ago
      She was a GIS major who got a job running drag and drop BI software for Florida state govt. She's been called a data scientist by journalists who don't know what data science is, but think it sounds cool and bolsters their narrative that the governor of Florida is a very very bad, mean man. The entire story has been a ringing example of how mainstream media outlets that were respectable 5 years ago have all turned into Buzzfeed.
JPKab 6y ago
She used a drag and drop tool to build the dashboard, and it's not gatekeeping, it's calling out an incredibly biased news source for trying to fluff up the credentials of their chosen hero to support their narrative. She specifically stated in the article I referenced that she "doesn't even know how to code" as a defense against the raid on her home for unauthorized access to the state of Florida's systems. Your definition of data scientist is what anyone who actually knows what they are talking about calls a data analyst. Data scientists create models for supervised and unsupervised learning for either product or research purposes. Jones is a hero of online-too-much partisans, and I'm going to take a wild guess you fall into that category.

lawnchair_larry 6y ago

It didn’t involve any programming. It’s just a BI dashboard.

groceryheist 6y ago
Boo gatekeeping. Knowing how to learn from complex data is the key competency!
- jkhdigital 6y ago
  What are you people talking about, “gatekeeping”? Do you personally know Ms. Jones or something? If her job title included “data scientist” then great, let’s call her that.
  - JPKab 6y ago
    She was a GIS major who got a job running drag and drop BI software for Florida state govt. She's been called a data scientist by journalists who don't know what data science is, but think it sounds cool and bolsters their narrative that the governor of Florida is a very very bad, mean man. The entire story has been a ringing example of how mainstream media outlets that were respectable 5 years ago have all turned into Buzzfeed.

JPKab 6y ago

She used a drag and drop tool to build the dashboard, and it's not gatekeeping, it's calling out an incredibly biased news source for trying to fluff up the credentials of their chosen hero to support their narrative. She specifically stated in the article I referenced that she "doesn't even know how to code" as a defense against the raid on her home for unauthorized access to the state of Florida's systems. Your definition of data scientist is what anyone who actually knows what they are talking about calls a data analyst. Data scientists create models for supervised and unsupervised learning for either product or research purposes. Jones is a hero of online-too-much partisans, and I'm going to take a wild guess you fall into that category.