>The data lifecycle is waaay overpopulated with Data Scientists who are not empowered or knowledgeable enough to work with product designers and engineers to do

>The data lifecycle is waaay overpopulated with Data Scientists who are not empowered or knowledgeable enough to work with product designers and engineers to do everything that empowers Data Science and ML. Reading this thread has made me realize just how lucky I am to work very closely with strong a very strong Data Scientist, who is complemented by a very strong Data Engineer. Conversations with the Data Scientist are always about strategy, product alignment, and ensuring we're optimizing what we build for learning. The Data Engineer works very closely to ensure we're actually capturing the data we think we are, getting it to analysis systems, and making sure those data pipelines stay healthy.