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Re:Desperate for Data Scientists by Kagerjay on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @02:28PM (#17920679)
There's a really good video here, seperating what "data science" means to different companies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC-c7E5PK0Y

TLDR

- some smaller -mid-sized companies call datascience are actually referring to software engineering / data engineering

- Smaller companies with datascience might be doing software engineering as well, if no data pipelines / collection datasets available (they are using the term wrong here)

- most companies calling for AI/deep learning don't actually meet the requirements for it.

- You don't need a data scientist until you have SWE's / data engineers

- Machine learning is more narrow smaller defined scoped problems / dataset, for things like text classification and analysis. Things like identifying what number is drawn out on a piece of paper using MNIST, etc.

basically, data-science could mean a lot of things and is pretty ambiguous. Its the new software-engineer vs web-developer terminology.

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