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Re:Is Data Science Your Next Career? by mipmap on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @09:56PM (#5784133)
As someone else working in the BI space, my coworkers and myself have been saying similar things. I feel like "Big Data" has the same feel that BI had years ago.

Also, we're all pretty sure that the title "Data Scientist" will be applied far too liberally. I have friends at other BI firms who are already calling themselves data scientists because they attended a convention where the words "Hadoop" and "Cloudera" were spoken.

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Re:Is Data Science Your Next Career? by Sealy on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @10:01PM (#5784151)
Exactly, I find there is not enough definition and way too much overlap. Even on Kaggles front page where they show 3 examples of 'the worlds top data scientists' it says:

Alexander Larko: -Experienced Computer Scientist & Data Miner with wide ranging skillset

No disrespect to this man's skills but I'm sure there are hundreds of us on here that could easily fall under that category!?!

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