No it isn't. She was paid as a web developer by the state. Simultaneously, the state has actual data scientists it was paying to look at this data and provide a

No it isn't. She was paid as a web developer by the state. Simultaneously, the state has actual data scientists it was paying to look at this data and provide analysis. I'm open to the idea she was and is a data scientist, nevertheless the state was not paying her for that. It was paying her to publish on official state website(s) data and analysis provided by the state's official, paid data scientists.