The "Sexiest Job of the 21st Century"

Data Scientist. Apparently.

http://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century

Harvard Business Review knows sexy

I just came.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/09/DataTNG.jpg/250px-DataTNG.jpg

I have been campaigning to have my job title updated.

This article is just straight-up LOLs from start to finish. Concluding sentences: Think of big data as an epic wave gathering now, starting to crest. If you want to catch it, you need people who can surf.

i'll admit i wasn't sexy enough to make it to the end of the article

My girlfriend does this job. I win!

DC's girlfriend, yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suazwrc2RPU

I suppose since I have a distinctly unsexy (and no doubt considerably less well-paid) job title with the word "data" in I should work out what the hell a "data scientist" actually is with a view to pretending to be one if at all believable.

I read choice bits of this article out to my colleagues for LOLs. And one of the analysts asked "what's the difference between a statistician and a data scientist?" and the answer is, apparently, a ~data scientist~ can code. So if you can code and you deal with data, you get to be a ~sexy data scientist~ as far as I'm concerned. So that's all of us, then, hahaha.

This is basically the funniest thing ever to us data wranglers here, to find out that our occupation is now sexy, because pretty much, when I tell people what I do for a living, people's eyes glaze over faster than that "omg people think librarians are so boring" article that was doing the rounds on twitter this week. (Actually librarians are totally sexy, but that's another story.)

(Not as sexy as Physicists, according to OfficeBoy. But he was throwing around charts of standard deviations earlier, pretending to be a ~sexy data scientist~. But we still wouldn't let him be in our ~sexy~ data department.)

So if you can code and you deal with data, you get to be a ~sexy data scientist~ as far as I'm concerned.

Woah, check me out!

Hey, I am a library data-wrangler for a double whammy of dull!

Well, not really. I write scripts to hoke through data but I think real data scientists deal with terabytes of data and data-mine them into "people who buy more than one toothbrush at once can be talked into spending hundreds of pounds on travel insurance and are prone to tennis elbow" all the while producing beautiful sixteen-dimensional scatter plots with attractive gradient shading or sth, whereas my scripts cry if they get more than 500mb of data and generally produce such interesting results as "here is a list of 6,000 books with some minor cataloguing mishap" zzz

ha ha, don't burst my beautiful dream, Spacecadet!

Let's not let the truth get in the way of being sexy.

~interrogates sexy's back end~

I shall work more on pulsating neon networked-blob-plots (as I'm sure is the technical Data Science term) for my misshelved book reports in future. SEXY DATA SCIENCE IN ACTION. (cue Thomas Dolby)

"Good HEAVENS, Ms Spacecadet, you're ~BEAUTIFUL~"

::takes off glasses and spins across data centre on wheely chair::

When I was a kid we had a Memotech MTX home micro, as seen in terrible 80s film Weird Science. Must see if it's still in my father's attic, it would complete the look.

It had a good Frogger clone called "Toado" too.

I think real data scientists deal with terabytes of data and data-mine them into "people who buy more than one toothbrush at once can be talked into spending hundreds of pounds on travel insurance and are prone to tennis elbow" all the while producing beautiful sixteen-dimensional scatter plots with attractive gradient shading

I recently had a meeting in an office full of people doing this sort of stuff. 'Sexy' was not the first word that came to mind.

I am going to the pub for a sexy data scientist lunch! Have a sexy afternoon, fellow scientists.

xp Heh, I guess it wouldn't, but at least the results are either prettier or get more money thrown at them than mine.

Maybe OfficeBoy is right.

::back to oogling George Gamow's hair::

I take your sexy data and turn it into prospectuses. Beautiful.

This is basically the funniest thing ever to us data wranglers here, to find out that our occupation is now sexy, because pretty much, when I tell people what I do for a living, people's eyes glaze over faster than that "omg people think librarians are so boring" article that was doing the rounds on twitter this week. (Actually librarians are totally sexy, but that's another story.)

Ah, I know that other story.

(Story ends)

http://metamarkets.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/moneyball06-470x340.jpg

i hate 'big data' and 'data scientist' so much right now

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/technology/for-big-data-scientists-hurdle-to-insights-is-janitor-work.html

'what ppl don't realize is all this data is a mess and we spend all our time writing scripts to fix it waaa'

how the fuck are any of these people scientists

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/08/18/business/18bottleneck/18bottleneck-master675.jpg

"look at the data!"

"yes i see the data"

It’s something that is not appreciated by data civilians. At times, it feels like everything we do.

that mark twain quote has never been more apposite #qualitativenotquantitative

Science!

After sacrificing 18 months of my life to the great god of ~Data Cleansing~ I don't wanna talk about dirty data any more.

i mean name me some fucking scientists who do NOT work with 'data'

Evolutionary Psychologists.

looool

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dying

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/06/27/series-philosophy-of-data-science-rob-kitchin/