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Hope
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The everything is Data science craze trend.

Honestly it's not even sustainable with every kid and their grandmother wanting to be data scientists because it's a 'passion' and a 'dream job' and all of that click bait stuff.

It's just become ridiculous at this point and I doubt we'll even have the long awaited 'breakthroughs' people have been talking about for so long.

Also I have a strong feeling everyone thinks it's their 'passion' because it tops the lists of highest paid jobs out there and everyone thinks with 3 months of training they're a fully fledged data scientist because some Python or R package implements all the algorithms he could ever think of using.

Add to that the fact that most advertised data science jobs are actually data engineering where you maintain a date store and that's it.

Agree or disagree that's my piece and if you can convince me otherwise I'll be surprised because I've been subscribed to this idea for so long that it lost me some real good opportunities because I thought it was just what I was meant to be doing which turned to be false after I thought about it. There's a million other jobs that are more impactful and with pursuing.

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  • 6
    I abso-fucking-lutely hate it when they advertise a data engineer as data scientist.

    But I do enjoy finding patterns in data, or rather, did. Until it became frustrating. Moving on to greener meadows of ANN and deep learning shit. Even though I'm totally not smart enough for it, but it's fun. Plus, the idea of hypothesis testing is something that more people should understand. Like, it should be common knowledge that's taught in school. (it's basically the main concept going from statistics to data science to ML)
  • 4
    In india, tin-shack like shops are claiminh, to make you a data scienctist or ml engineer.
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