[eanzenberg]

That's fine. How do you describe a software engineer? Someone who codes? Makes APIs and tools? Handles security? Handles servers? Implements UI/UX?

So do you equally think labelling of software engineer is meaningless because it's broad?

Data science envelops many many many different sub-fields and specializations, many of them not involving any science at all, but some of them do involve science (understanding structure through observation and experimentation).

Maybe you don't like us being called "Scientists"? I can go to a journal, read research articles, and point out ones with horrible statistical analysis. Are those authors more of a scientist than I am, because they are arbitrarily in "academia"?

Finally, a dirty little secret is that the more data you have the less statistics you need. I bet even Google knows this, and their data dept. is probably the best academic statisics dept. I've ever met.