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“Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work”
by ErikAugust 5y ago
“Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work”
- civilized 5y agoWhich is sad because data work can lead to real domain knowledge, while fitting a grab bag of generic models teaches you nothing by itself (wooo, this thing has 0.0003 higher AUC than that thing!) Fitting generic data science predictive models is such a rote task these days that there's a crowd of start-ups begging you to pay them to automate it for you.
- mcswell 5y agoI don't know how it is in other fields; I'm a linguist, who made the transition to computational linguistics back when you had to be a linguist to be a computational linguist (the 1980s). Slow forward to statistical (and now neural) comp ling; I find it incredibly boring. But the data work still needs to be done, and there are still linguists. And even more than me, they find computational linguistics (of whatever type) less interesting that "real" linguistics. So they will do data work, and willingly.
- ip26 5y agoSad part is while there are still people who prefer the data work in some fields, it’s not valued, since the model people have decided the data is a commodity! Result: they too have to move to model work!