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Gearing myself towards a data science career, it strikes me as a particularly odd way of presenting growth in the field. A lot of these articles seem to suggest
by kartikkumar 13y ago
Gearing myself towards a data science career, it strikes me as a particularly odd way of presenting growth in the field. A lot of these articles seem to suggest that the field has been recently "discovered", when it's more a case of the technology supporting more advanced analysis. "Data science" existed before all of this hype, and I think it's a misnomer to suggest that that wasn't the case. There's definitely a greater spotlight on data science now, but I don't think that's any real reflection of how business intelligence and data analytics were done before the mega-hype kicked in.
- alex_anglin 13y agoSpeaking as someone for whom statistical software puts food on my table, one of my favorite statements about data science is (roughly speaking) "If you don't have data, are you really a scientist?" I would completely agree with your point about technology supporting more advanced analysis: Current information processing capabilities allow us to ask new questions from higher volumes of data than was possible in the past.
- bayesianhorse 13y ago"data scientist" sounds much more interesting and succinct than "scientist who transform and analyzes data which can only be transformed and analyzed by computational means".