A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn

Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn by learc83 on Friday January 09, 2015 @03:07PM (#8864186)

>But I don't know if most people count data science as a real scientific field.

If you're using it in the big data, industry buzzword sense, then I doubt the OP would consider it "hard science research."

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Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn by timr on Friday January 09, 2015 @03:27PM (#8864303)

Those salary numbers are also arguably bubbly..."data science" is so new and hype-driven that we might be looking back in a few years at the ridiculous salad days where someone who knew a bit of statistics and a bit of programming could pull down $100k a year.

It's starting to read like "webmaster" salaries in the late 90s...

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Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn by shanusmagnus on Friday January 09, 2015 @04:09PM (#8864534)

I think that is a perfect analogy. Anyone with marginal skills who wants to get a job as a 'data scientist' would be well-advised to do so before the music stops.

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