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Re:Demand and Salaries for Data Scientists Continue to Climb by spamizbad on Saturday January 26, 2019 @09:14PM (#19009997)
(Disclaimer: generalization ahead) That might be because they're starting to get hip to the fact that too many data scientists struggle to produce professional-level code, forcing you to pay a software developer to create the actual deliverable from their prototype. At that point, why not just hire a really bright software engineer who can code well and knows how to work with data?
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Re:Demand and Salaries for Data Scientists Continue to Climb by walrus1066 on Sunday January 27, 2019 @04:51AM (#19011109)
I'm not sure it's easy for a software engineer to develop a model, it's quite an orthogonal skill, you need a solid grasp on mathematics and especially statistics.
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Re:Demand and Salaries for Data Scientists Continue to Climb by amitport on Sunday January 27, 2019 @06:19AM (#19011295)
It's not easy, but there are capable developers that are proficient in data science and it may be cost effective to hire one such (high cost) programmer than one (average cost) data-scientist and another (average cost) programmer.
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Re:Demand and Salaries for Data Scientists Continue to Climb by spamizbad on Sunday January 27, 2019 @09:19AM (#19011764)
True, but those software engineers exist, and FAANG and FAANG-adjacent companies offer the work opportunities, prestige and salaries to attract those "twofer" engineers.
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