{"id":3562,"date":"2014-05-09T18:23:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T18:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=3562"},"modified":"2014-05-09T18:48:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T18:48:46","slug":"already-time-kill-data-scientist-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/already-time-kill-data-scientist-title\/3562\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Already Time to Kill the \u201cData Scientist\u201d Title"},"content":{"rendered":"What does it mean today to say your are\u2014or want to be, or want to hire\u2014a \u201cdata scientist?\u201d Not much, unfortunately. The job title has almost as much ambiguity as the term \u201cBig Data.\u201d If you really want to be one of these, or to hire someone who can help you with your Big Data projects, you need to be much more precise in your terminology. I could see this coming more than a year ago. I had just finished a Harvard Business Review article on data scientists with D.J. Patil, who co-coined the term when he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/already-time-kill-data-scientist-title\/3562\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it mean today to say your are\u2014or want to be, or want to hire\u2014a \u201cdata scientist?\u201d Not much, unfortunately. The job title has almost as much ambiguity as the term \u201cBig Data.\u201d If you really want to be one of these, or to hire someone who can help you with your Big Data [&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":[11,48],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-3562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-data-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562","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=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3571,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions\/3571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}