On: How To Hire A Data Scientist

[retroafroman]

>"we want someone who can take large amounts of data and do something awesome with it". What do you call that?

Analyst

[rm999 → retroafroman]

That's close to what I used to be called. It's a very overused and vague term, I'd argue far worse than the already bad 'data scientist'. Search job postings for 'analyst' and see the wide variety of jobs that turn up.

[tatsuke95 → retroafroman]

>Analyst

Analyst is a four-letter word in programming circles, isn't it?