1 min readApr 22, 2019
What you are describing is not data science roles, but roles for data analysts. Not different from a restaurant advertising a position for a pastry chef, when the job consists of flipping burgers. I wrote many articles on this topic, here is a selection of them:
- Debunking Forbes Article about the Death of the Data Scientist
- Why You Should be a Data Science Generalist — and How to Become One
- Becoming a Billionaire Data Scientist vs Struggling to Get a $100k Job — What is the difference?
- Is a PhD helpful for a data science career?
- If data science is in demand, why is it so hard to get a job?
- Why do people with no experience want to become data scientists?
- Why is Becoming a Data Scientist so Difficult?
- Full Stack Data Scientist: The Elusive Unicorn and Data Hacker
- Statistical Significance and p-Values Take Another Blow
- Are data science or stats curricula in US too specialized?
- How do you identify an actual data scientist?
- Is it still possible today to become a self-taught data scientist?