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I'm a "data scientist" but I don't do any data science.

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I've been a data analyst and a data scientist now for coming up on 10 years. I've had 4 roles in this time, and it's all been the same. I went to school to learn how to use various machine learning algorithms and build models and all these companies want me to do is descriptive statistics, glorifie…

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  1. 2026-08-24 12:16 · r/datascience
    I'm a "data scientist" but I don't do any data science.

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