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by nesu 4992 days ago
Data Scientist (n.): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician.

source: http://blog.kaggle.com/2012/10/04/engineering-practices-in-d...

Software development is important, but it's not everything. People choose what works and use it.

Though I agree that spreadsheets won't always work on Big Data, there's no point in doing more if you can achieve it with less.