Hadooponomics

Shant Hovsepian and Claudia Perlich are back in episode four of Hadooponomics as we tackle the hot-button topic of Data Scientists. Both Shant and Claudia are premier data scientists (For more background check out episode 2), which gives us a great entry point for discussion.   I broke this episode into a two-part discussion in which I ask each about the current and future role of data scientists. For her part, Claudia is quick to point out what is and what is not a data science problem, and how refusing to recognize the difference can lead organizations down the wrong path. Shant took the approach of illuminating the importance of communicating results with simplicity by discussing how the most complex data science problems, such as weather, often manifest themselves in simplistic end results.   As the conversation drifted into the future role of the data scientist we discussed the implications of advanced software abstracting away much of the technical portions of the data scientist job. Claudia w