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Can technology replace Data Scientists?
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Robert Novak
I think it can abstract them, and make them able to focus on more unique issues rather than inventing the wheel for each company and use case.
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John Furrier
#clus @JimMcHugh I say no but it will shift roles to be more abstract it will power the analyst market and apps
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Tim Crawford
Technology and other functions may replace the general need for data scientists.
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Tim Crawford
Scientists suggests experimentation. Culturally, we're not at that stage of business yet WRT data.
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Robert Novak
@tcrawford I think we have to experiment, iterate on our analytics processes. We don't have a direct path yet, so there is a lot of analysis around analytics (so meta, I know)
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Jim McHugh
Well there was a recent HBR article about the shortage of Data Scientists so supplementing vs replacing would help
David Littlewood
We can certainly reduce the dependency on them which is a big barrier to adoption i.e. there are not enough of them and they are very expensive
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Hal Rottenberg
well, scientists use a formal method to draw conclusions. Without data scientists, will the value gleaned be more shallow? Less rigorous?
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Renee Yao
What Jim was referring to is this article :) https://hbr.org/2015...
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Dave Vellante
Y&N machines have always replaced humans - the question is what will humans be able to do that machines can't
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Raghunath Nambiar
Technology cannot replace data scientists but them better and faster
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Courtney J. Anders
at @platfora we believe there is a human element to big data. Traditional tools don't allow data scientists to impact the business. We see a huge opportunity to scale the work of data scientists.
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John Furrier
#clus @therealcojo here is a great interview with founder Ben Werther in 2013 great vision https://www.youtube....
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Jim @ CWPBIZ
@dvellante Answer; humans will be able to "bluff based on intuition" where machines can't. That's my guess.
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John Furrier
#clus @therealcojo Ben Werther vision from day one was to make analytics easy for common knowledge worker
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Grant Bodley
Our customers tell us their secret sauce is in their Data and their Data Science (how they use their data) rather than in the technology they use.