Big data and data science became popular terms around the same time, doesn't mean that one implies the other like the GP comment suggested. Big data isn't a con

Big data and data science became popular terms around the same time, doesn't mean that one implies the other like the GP comment suggested. Big data isn't a concern for most working data scientists today - not all datasets are that big, even cheap machines are very powerful and in the cases when you are working at huge scale a lot of the complexity is abstracted away from the data science work anyway.