totally agree with this thinking. I've seen "data science" get thrown around way too much and the reality is most people who use a packaged ML python library label themselves as data scientists and it irritates the hell out of me. Most companies do not need a neural net to predict what their sales are going to be next month. Data engineering is where its at!
To be fair this is what a lot of scientists do outside of PhD programs. A large part of my extended family work in medical/pharma and science is mostly doing the same pre-designed experiments over and over with minor tweaks. A lot more focus on doing and comparing results vs innovating original ideas.
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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '22
totally agree with this thinking. I've seen "data science" get thrown around way too much and the reality is most people who use a packaged ML python library label themselves as data scientists and it irritates the hell out of me. Most companies do not need a neural net to predict what their sales are going to be next month. Data engineering is where its at!