{"id":9507,"date":"2018-05-03T16:22:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T20:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=9507"},"modified":"2025-10-22T04:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:28:35","slug":"theres-no-such-thing-as-a-data-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-data-scientist\/9507\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s No Such Thing as a Data Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in Medium, March 12, 2018 For today\u2019s leading machine learning methods and technology, attend the conference and training workshops at Predictive Analytics World Las Vegas, June 3-7, 2018. What do you really do? There\u2019s a memorable scene in Office Space where consultants determining employee productivity start by asking, \u201cWhat would you say\u2026 you do here?\u201d That scene and the \u201cWhat I Do\u201d images are funny because we empathize with the struggle to describe our jobs. It\u2019s not funny, however, when the same misunderstanding occurs during the job search. It\u2019s important to understand what a job posting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-data-scientist\/9507\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in Medium, March 12, 2018 For today\u2019s leading machine learning methods and technology, attend the conference and training workshops at Predictive Analytics World Las Vegas, June 3-7, 2018. What do you really do? There\u2019s a memorable scene in Office Space where consultants determining employee productivity start by asking, \u201cWhat would you say\u2026 you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507","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\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9514,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507\/revisions\/9514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}