Is anyone a data scientist and would you recommend it as a job?

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ihavetakenthebiscuit@reddit

I imagine it will be obsolete/downsized alot due to AI

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CseST@reddit

Analytics yes, science and MLops not so much. But it’s extremely hard to get a job in the field either way nowadays.

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coconutszz@reddit

I think generally downsized yes, like most office jobs. But at the end of the day it's data scientists who are hired to build and implement AI.

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intrepid_foxcat@reddit

I work in the field and think honestly smart people who're not afraid of thinking critically and who can build good technical skills have little to worry about

Some stuff will be automated more quickly reducing headcount or improving efficiency a bit

A lot of really shit analysis and code is going to be spat out, stuff that doesn't make any sense, that breaks and no one knows why, that looks good but actually doesn't do what it's meant to, etc etc

Companies that cheap out will learn the hard way that they need highly trained humans in the loop who understand what the llms are spitting out

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Infamous_Tough_7320@reddit

I won’t fully be obsolete but at an entry level it will definitely be hurt significantly

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Bakes182@reddit

Potentially, however we are still a way off that yet. AI makes mistakes, it's still "learning" and no company is feeding models sensitive information (unless the LLM is locally hosted with no data retention). However, AI (LLMs) are still not up to the standard that a lot of researchers, companies etc. need them to be to blindly trust the results. You can try this yourself, ask chatgpt to summarise the same text a few times and see just how different the answers are each time. It won't be massively different but enough to demonstrate the above :)

Data scientists are still needed, and will be for a while now, OP might be getting into it at an exciting time, where their inputs can pivot AI learning to advance it's role, and in turn transitioning their career from Data Scientist to AI Data Scientist.

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mayaic@reddit

I have a master’s in data science and ended up working in credit risk modelling at a bank. I’m happy it’s worked out that way as I find the modelling more interesting than just strict analysis and I make decent money, but it’s also an incredibly saturated market that’s gotten even worse than when I started, which was 2021. On that basis, I wouldn’t put all my hopes on it being a life changing career choice.

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trippykitsy@reddit

im a data analyst. it's a pretty boring job by itself and a bad time to be getting into the industry.

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GrimQuim@reddit

And there was me thinking data scientists weren't just data analysts with delusions of grandeur.

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trippykitsy@reddit

to be honest, as somebody who started off in social sciences and is now a data analyst, if people don't care about the data you're collecting and they don't want to hear what it has to say, the jobs arent worth squat to them. the more lucrative data roles are almost entirely automated now.

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Serious-Top9613@reddit

Currently doing data ethics, compliance, and market research with my data science degree. No coding (kinda sad about that). It took me roughly 5 months to land this job.

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coconutszz@reddit

Yes and yes definitely, but data science is such a broad field that what the job entails varies greatly between roles. You can be somewhere between a statistician and SWE, or you could end up as an excel monkey or prompt engineer.

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Material-Water-6892@reddit

I’m a maths graduate trying to break into data sci.

The job market has crashed over the last year. So it’s basically impossible to enter the field rn

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Hick-ford@reddit

I see these advertised all the time, courses like this and Cybersecurity won't actually land you a job in data science or Cybersecurity, they just teach you the fundamentals, which if you went to University while also simultaneously earning your certs, you'd already pretty much know. If you have a job already in IT through whatever means, I suppose it would enhance your performance, but that's about it.

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Mammyjam@reddit

I'm not but I have a team of 12 of them supporting my projects. Seems boring as fuck, I dread their boss catching me in the office to 'show you a little improvement I've been working on' because I know that will be an hour of my life gone

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