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I think that this is more of a problem with the specific people that you have worked with and it isn't inherent to the role of a data scientist.
by superbcarrot 6y ago
I think that this is more of a problem with the specific people that you have worked with and it isn't inherent to the role of a data scientist.
- ct0 6y agoDoesn't sound like a modern Data Scientist, sounds more like a statistician with 30+ years of experience.
- sidlls 6y agoIt’s becoming more inherent, especially as the field is populated with people who have no experience with the “science” part. That is, with the very real and ubiquitous problem of collecting and cleaning data to make it fit for scientific study. Even theoretical physicists, for example, participate in and rely on empirical data collection, and understand deeply how messy and fraught with error it is. I don’t see the same appreciation or consideration in general in the field of data “science.”
- superbcarrot 6y ago> with people who have no experience with the “science” part It's interesting that you put it that way because a lot of the other complaints in this thread are that the people who expect their data to be ready for use are exactly the people with science experience but without the relevant technical background.
- Mauricebranagh 6y agoI remember working with some one who has PhD in Physics and who worked at CERN - and one comment I loved "a key skill is knowing how to place the legend, so it obscures that annoying outlier data point"