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Data Science and "Big Data" have done a really good job of marketing themselves. As a result, people recognize that these roles are valuable, Data Scientists ge

Data Science and "Big Data" have done a really good job of marketing themselves. As a result, people recognize that these roles are valuable, Data Scientists get paid & treated well, and it tends to work out well for everyone. What can we learn that we can apply to technology in general? I feel like "programmers" and "IT" tend to be undervalued while Data Science tends to be accurately or even overvalued.

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> What can we learn that we can apply to technology in general? I feel like "programmers" and "IT" tend to be undervalued while Data Science tends to be accurately or even overvalued. Given that Data Scientist is just a sexier rephrasing of Analyst, my suggestion would be to retitle Programmers as Computational Engineers. Or use Lisp.