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Rebekah Jones to GeoHipster: “We work at the cross-section of Earth and people”
- philshem 6y agoHer status as “data scientist” was discussed in previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25810942 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25810942 She answers in this post quite clearly. > Q: Do you consider yourself a GIS person, or a data scientist, or a whistleblower? Or maybe all three? > A: I’m not a data scientist. I keep emphasizing to folks that I am a geographer — and I was recognized as a geographer in the news for months before the raid. Now I’m back to data scientist, and it’s highly inappropriate. All scientists work with data, that doesn’t make them data scientists. I consider myself a GIS expert, a whistleblower, a geographer.