Data Scientist (n.): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician. source: http://blo

Data Scientist (n.): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician. source: http://blog.kaggle.com/2012/10/04/engineering-practices-in-data-science/ http://blog.kaggle.com/2012/10/04/engineering-practices-in-d... Software development is important, but it's not everything. People choose what works and use it. Though I agree that spreadsheets won't always work on Big Data, there's no point in doing more if you can achieve it with less.