I work in scientometrics, which is like econometrics but with scientific papers and patents (patents are not optimal, but it's an adequate proxy for innovation). It's useful to detect new trends in science and adjust funding accordingly.
We do a lot of data mining, information extraction from very organic sources, data visualization, etc. It's a growing field and it's very challenging and we have access to incredible datasets.
I think I fit their definition of a data scientist, but I'll never use that title. It's pompous and sounds something like someone in marketing would make up (and I worked as a market research analyst for a number of years). My title is simply research analyst.
Data scientist is bad, but the worst title I've seen was: web strategist & tactician
We do a lot of data mining, information extraction from very organic sources, data visualization, etc. It's a growing field and it's very challenging and we have access to incredible datasets.
I think I fit their definition of a data scientist, but I'll never use that title. It's pompous and sounds something like someone in marketing would make up (and I worked as a market research analyst for a number of years). My title is simply research analyst.
Data scientist is bad, but the worst title I've seen was: web strategist & tactician