3 ms·
I read this piece and kept reading hoping that they would mention the real reason for this and it didn’t happen. The vast majority of data scientists are terri
by nojito 5y ago
I read this piece and kept reading hoping that they would mention the real reason for this and it didn’t happen.
The vast majority of data scientists are terrible at their jobs. They lack fundamental skills on how to extract business value from data and share that value with the organization.
The fact of the matter is the majority of organizations don’t need FANG style data science with esoteric models and pipelines.
It’s very similar to the current software developer trend of over/pre optimizing or resume driven development that is ravaging the industry today.
- padthai 5y agoTech is fashion driven. Ten years ago it was Hadoop/SVM/MongoDB, five years ago Spark/CNN/Neo4j. If today you appear at the door with Nomad/MCMC/Riak, you will be looked down. We are expecting something like K8s/Prophet/Snowflake. Somewhere in the same company might be someone making the same as you with a couple of SQL/Qlik courses in their well groomed head and a handful of ironed shirts in their closet. But we will look down at them because dressing well is for sheep and SQL is like, 100 years old.