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>The actual process of collecting, aggregating, cleaning and verifying data is a hugely important skill, and not one I've really seen typical data scientists po
by finnthehuman 6y ago
>The actual process of collecting, aggregating, cleaning and verifying data is a hugely important skill, and not one I've really seen typical data scientists possess.
Then they are not scientists. They have a label "scientist" but lack of rigor of actual science.
I don't see why changing the label to "engineer" would suddenly make them have rigor.
- avs733 6y agoRight?! This is sort of the meta failure of the argument. They are arguing that people's data skillsets are wrong. To make that argument they are analyzing based on the wrong variable in a data set.
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