{"id":3514,"date":"2014-04-15T16:02:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T16:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2014-04-15T16:02:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T16:02:22","slug":"will-rise-self-service-bi-tools-lead-demise-data-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/will-rise-self-service-bi-tools-lead-demise-data-scientist\/3514\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the rise of self-service BI tools lead to the demise of the data scientist?"},"content":{"rendered":"Is this the beginning of the end for the vaunted data scientist? That&#8217;s the clever pitch from Tableau Software, one of a handful of business intelligence vendors pushing the envelope on self-service BI tools. Because the software&#8217;s user interface offers drag-and-drop features, even users without a strong math background can build visualizations and interrogate the data, the vendor promises. Tableau isn&#8217;t the only one with a strong self-service play. More and more vendors are offering analytical packaged applications that mask the complexity of analytics on the back end with easy-to-use features, which begs the question: Are data scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/will-rise-self-service-bi-tools-lead-demise-data-scientist\/3514\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this the beginning of the end for the vaunted data scientist? That&#8217;s the clever pitch from Tableau Software, one of a handful of business intelligence vendors pushing the envelope on self-service BI tools. Because the software&#8217;s user interface offers drag-and-drop features, even users without a strong math background can build visualizations and interrogate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[252,335,247,336],"class_list":["post-3514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-chief-experience-officer-cxo","tag-gartner-inc","tag-prescriptive-analytics","tag-tableau-software-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3517,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions\/3517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}