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In my experience, a little more nuanced.

LARGE INTERNET DATA COMPANIES. They want the real data science.

For them, data science actually allows them to perform a core business function (target their customers) in a profitable way (one way, asynchronous relationship. Note the complete lack of any "talking to a human being" in your relationship with big tech).

For everyone who isn't a large internet data company with an asynchronous relationship with their customers... what's the point?

Usually, they have only a handful of technical projects that benefit from data science.

In my experience, my multi-billion dollar organization got by with a shockingly small number of "real" data scientists.




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