News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers. Parent comment

Re:We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers by nerdponx on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:44AM (#25777695)
It doesn't matter, as long as you don't make the person with the PhD in biostatistics spend their time writing ETL pipelines, which is a wildly inefficient use of a very expensive resource.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers by names_are_hard on Thursday January 14, 2021 @12:14PM (#25779049)
Do people with PhDs in biostatistics earn significantly more than programmers? I honestly know nothing about the market for biostatisticians, but my impression was that advanced degrees in the natural sciences don't really pay that well compared to software engineers, especially given that they're much more educated.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers by aldanor on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:28PM (#25782036)
If they work e.g. in a hedge fund / trading firm, then - yea. And you see lots of PhDs from unrelated fields working as quants there.
[ Parent | on HN ]