{"id":5148,"date":"2021-10-27T06:33:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T06:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aiproblog.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/27\/the-disappearing-data-scientist\/"},"modified":"2021-10-27T06:33:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T06:33:46","slug":"the-disappearing-data-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aiproblog.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/27\/the-disappearing-data-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disappearing Data Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Kurt A Cagle<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"transcript-header\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/vKZNAto7yE72xG\" width=\"595\" height=\"485\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p>1. THE DISAPPEARING DATA SCIENTIST BY KURT CAGLE MANAGING EDITOR DATA SCIENCE CENTRAL<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/image.slidesharecdn.com\/thedisappearingdatascientist-211026202852\/95\/the-disappearing-data-scientist-2-638.jpg?cb=1635280172\" title=\"THESIS: THE DATA SCIENTIST IS GOING AWAY. INSTEAD, DATA LIT...\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2.\u00a0<\/a>THESIS: THE DATA SCIENTIST IS GOING AWAY. INSTEAD, DATA LITERACY IS BECOMING CRITICAL \u2022<\/p>\n<p>As Organizations Continue To Become Data Focused, Dedicated Data Scientists Are \u2022 Fading Away Even As Many Professions Require Proficiency In Data Technologies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/image.slidesharecdn.com\/thedisappearingdatascientist-211026202852\/95\/the-disappearing-data-scientist-3-638.jpg?cb=1635280172\" title=\"DATA SCIENCE HAS BEEN AROUND FOR AWHILE \u2022 Actuaries, Statis...\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3.\u00a0<\/a>DATA SCIENCE HAS BEEN AROUND FOR AWHILE \u2022<\/p>\n<p>Actuaries, Statisticians, Analysts \u2026 These Were All Proto-Data Scientists. \u2022 Most Were Also Subject Matters Who Used These Tools For Domain Research.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/image.slidesharecdn.com\/thedisappearingdatascientist-211026202852\/95\/the-disappearing-data-scientist-4-638.jpg?cb=1635280172\" title=\"EVEN THE TOOLS OF DATA SCIENCE ARE COMPARATIVELY OLD \u2022 Fort...\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4.\u00a0<\/a>EVEN THE TOOLS OF DATA SCIENCE ARE COMPARATIVELY OLD \u2022<\/p>\n<p>Fortran, SAS, SRSS, MATLAB, Mathematica and Many Others Have Been Used For Statistical Analysis For Decades<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/image.slidesharecdn.com\/thedisappearingdatascientist-211026202852\/95\/the-disappearing-data-scientist-5-638.jpg?cb=1635280172\" title=\"DATA SCIENTISTS EMERGED AS A SEPARATE DISCIPLINE AROUND 201...\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5.\u00a0<\/a>DATA SCIENTISTS EMERGED AS A SEPARATE DISCIPLINE AROUND 2012<\/p>\n<p>Big Data Spurred Big Analysis, Mostly In Building Statistical Models. R and Later Python Ruled the Roost As Data Scientists<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/image.slidesharecdn.com\/thedisappearingdatascientist-211026202852\/95\/the-disappearing-data-scientist-6-638.jpg?cb=1635280172\" title=\"MACHINE LEARNING INVOLVED THE USE OF NEURAL NETWORKS TO \u201cTE...\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">6.\u00a0<\/a>MACHINE LEARNING INVOLVED THE USE OF NEURAL NETWORKS TO \u201cTEACH\u201d MODELS \u2022<\/p>\n<p>Neural Networks Applied to Categorization, Image Recognition, NLP \u2022 Single Actions and Command Lines Gave Way to Rich User Interfaces<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/image.slidesharecdn.com\/thedisappearingdatascientist-211026202852\/95\/the-disappearing-data-scientist-7-638.jpg?cb=1635280172\" title=\"DATA SCIENTISTS WENT FROM INDIVIDUALS TO TEAMS BY THE EARLY...\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">7.\u00a0<\/a>DATA SCIENTISTS WENT FROM INDIVIDUALS TO TEAMS BY THE EARLY 2020S \u2022<\/p>\n<p>Data Engineers to Analysts to Visualizers to Storytellers to Strategists to Ethicists. \u2022 The Focus In Organizations Shifted From Analysis To Model Building as Software<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/image.slidesharecdn.com\/thedisappearingdatascientist-211026202852\/95\/the-disappearing-data-scientist-8-638.jpg?cb=1635280172\" title=\"DATA SCIENTISTS ARE DISPERSING INTO SPECIALISTS, SUBJECT MA...\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">8.\u00a0<\/a>DATA SCIENTISTS ARE DISPERSING INTO SPECIALISTS, SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS, GOVERNORS AND CHAMPIONS \u2022<\/p>\n<p>As Organizations Become Data-Centric, the Lone Data Scientists Are Being Replaced by Subject Matter Experts Who Are Trained With Data Science Tools, and Data Competency is Increasingly Expected of Managers and Decision Makers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/image.slidesharecdn.com\/thedisappearingdatascientist-211026202852\/95\/the-disappearing-data-scientist-9-638.jpg?cb=1635280172\" title=\"THE FUTURE: AUGMENTED INTELLIGENCE, NOT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIG...\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9.\u00a0<\/a>THE FUTURE: AUGMENTED INTELLIGENCE, NOT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE \u2022<\/p>\n<p>AI has become Augmented Intelligence, using Data Science Tools To Inform, Automate and Operationalize Data-Driven Decision Making. \u2022 Moreover, the most successful AI projects have human in the loops, because trust and ethics remain (and should be) difficult to automate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/image.slidesharecdn.com\/thedisappearingdatascientist-211026202852\/95\/the-disappearing-data-scientist-10-638.jpg?cb=1635280172\" title=\"CAREER STRATEGIES IN THE DATA FUTURE \u2022 Data Literacy \u2013 the ...\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.\u00a0<\/a>CAREER STRATEGIES IN THE DATA FUTURE \u2022<\/p>\n<p>Data Literacy \u2013 the Understanding of Data Analytics, Augmented Intelligence and Models As Software \u2013 Should Inform Decisions About Education and Career Planning. \u2022 Don\u2019t Become a Data Scientist, Become a Data Literate Subject Matter Expert or Decision Maker<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Hosted at\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/KurtCagle1\/the-disappearing-data-scientist-250533672\" title=\"The Disappearing Data Scientist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Disappearing Data Scientist<\/a><\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/KurtCagle1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kurt Cagle<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.datasciencecentral.com\/xn\/detail\/6448529:BlogPost:1074363\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Kurt A Cagle 1. 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