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Reminds me of "Goodbye, Data Science" from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33787270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33787270 The m
by chubot 4y ago
Reminds me of "Goodbye, Data Science" from a few months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33787270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33787270
The main reason I soured on data science is that the work felt like it didn’t matter, in multiple senses of the words “didn’t matter”:
https://ryxcommar.com/2022/11/27/goodbye-data-science/ https://ryxcommar.com/2022/11/27/goodbye-data-science/
For part of my career over 10 years ago, I worked in data science for big tech, and I can definitely see the hazards ...
It is extremely easy to get hoodwinked into joining a useless data science team, one that is mere signaling for executives, ineffective, ignored, or otherwise