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The problem here is, IMO a semantic one.

"Data scientist" is giving people the wrong impression. What this demand really is is companies now have a lot of data because everything is digitised. They need people to do stuff with that.

The actual demand for data related work is to data science like the actual demand for computer related work is to computer science. Statisticians, analysts, database engineers.




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