Basically this manager guy had like a dozen job titles under him, such as Business Analyst, Data Analyst, ML Engineer, and sundry more. Then his HR team came to

Basically this manager guy had like a dozen job titles under him, such as Business Analyst, Data Analyst, ML Engineer, and sundry more. Then his HR team came to him and told him to just boil it down to 1. So he made up this title "Data Scientist" because it sounded badass, and then everyone from both the business analytics side and the software engineering side decided this sounds awesome and they want it to be the next step of their career. Then the federal government came up with this title something like "Secretary of Data Scientist" and the guy who made up the term worked at that.