>"Data science" is a bizarre job description to me. It is starting to smell like a marketing term, where "Big Data" is used to get executives with purchasing a

>"Data science" is a bizarre job description to me. It is starting to smell like a marketing term, where "Big Data" is used to get executives with purchasing authority to be interested in no-longer-new tech by putting a shiny wrapper on it, "Data Science" is doing something similar with job titles - perhaps in an effort to get those who know better to buy into the hype.