Neil Saunders has an interesting (to me) blog post up this morning, with the title “Dumped on by data scientists.” He uses the use of “data scientist” in a Chronicle of Higher Ed article to rant a little bit about the term. For Neil, it’s redundant, as the act of doing science necessarily requires data; it’s insulting, as if “scientist” wasn’t cool enough and you have to add “data”; and it’s misleading, as many people who call themselves “data scientists” are actua...
