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Re:Desperate for Data Scientists by dswalter on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @09:59AM (#17918004)
A half-decent software engineer can easily and quickly produce a lot of data products.

If you divide the responsibilities of a data scientist into two broad categories:

* Can I get the answer I need/build the product I need?

* What is the question I should be answering? What do I need to build?

Software engineers tend to do quite well at the former, but are not necessarily guaranteed to be successful at the latter.

Re:Desperate for Data Scientists by collyw on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @11:44AM (#17918982)
In my experience its the software engineers bosses that are poor at the later.