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Not so sure this story is that of the virtuous whistleblower the article portrays. She has a degree in geography and communications. It's unclear where her k

by starkd 6y ago

Not so sure this story is that of the virtuous whistleblower the article portrays. She has a degree in geography and communications. It's unclear where her knowledge of data science comes from, but she clearly wasn't hired for that. She was defying the team of epidemiologists in publishing bad data. The risk of bad data is just as bad as no data. But the term, data science seems to becoming the new catchall phrase that can mean everything and nothing at the same time.

worik 6y ago
"data science" == newspeak("statistics")
- starkd 6y ago
  It's a bit more than just statistics though. Often there is more art to interpreting data than science.
  - worik 6y ago
    That is where statistics is used, has been used... There is no thing in "Data Science" that is not in statistics.
proverbialbunny 6y ago
My job title is data scientist, just as hers was. It's far less of a catch all title than the job title software engineer is. There are so many different kinds of software engineers, but only a few kinds of data scientists. Of the kind of work she was doing, in 2020 roughly 60% of data scientists did the same kind of work. Yes, not all data scientists create dashboards, but calling the job title a catch all is pretty far from reality.