[dummy7953]

You're basically describing stuff I was doing like 20 freaking years ago. Minus the Hive & Spark & Highcharts & d3.js - naturally.

But back then I couldn't get any of my managers to understand or appreciate what I was doing. Fickle finger of fate.

[pvnick]

Hell even William Gosset was doing "data science" when he popularized the Student T distribution while working for the Guinness Brewery back in 1908.

[mziel]

I lived through Statistics, Business Analysis, Decision Analytics, Data Analytics, Data Mining now Data Science. Same thing renamed over and over again.

Regarding post above, it's right. Data scientist is someone better at statistics (classical stats, bayesian, machine learning) than computer scientist, and better at programming (SQL, R/Python for building models) than academic statistician. Plus a teaspoon of visualization (ggplot or d3).

[rrmm]

AI has gone through the same sort of buzzword treadmill and even programming in general. Only after living through a few cycles does it really become obvious how cyclic these sorts of trends are.

I'm trying to work on being less jaded about it, and not letting my annoyance with the-new-trendy-thing-that-i-remember-doing-years-ago-under-a-different-name get in the way of learning new technology and new lessons.

But it's a struggle.