The job description for a data scientist isn't necessarily consistent across companies, but I can imagine a good description would be to act like a real scienti

The job description for a data scientist isn't necessarily consistent across companies, but I can imagine a good description would be to act like a real scientist in that you collaborate with product teams to figure out what experiments to run, what data to collect, and how to visualize that for both the product and business team to decide on their approach to make the company more money, ie. specializing in a/b testing and experimentation. A problem I see is creating a data science team just to follow the trends and specifically requesting they try to "study user behavior" or something in hopes the data shows some underlying trend that triggers an "eureka!" moment.