These requests are not unreasonable in organisations that only need to run some simple (from a mathematical standpoint) operations against a complex (from an IT

These requests are not unreasonable in organisations that only need to run some simple (from a mathematical standpoint) operations against a complex (from an IT perspective) dataset. Quite often you don't need a full time statistician or mathematician, but you can make it a full time job if you hire a sysadmin or a developer that understand statistical distributions and hypothesis testing, and you put them in charge of the whole data infrastructure. I'm not saying this is the majority of data scientists jobs, but in some organisations I worked for the data analyst was a guy that run `SELECT MIN(v), MAX(v) AVG(v) from TableX` against a MySql DB, so they were also in charge of DB administration and data ingestion, otherwise it would not have been a full time job.