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The one place “citizen data scientist” makes sense

May 8, 2019 by Ted Cuzzillo

A new term has hit the wind, “citizen data scientists.” These data workers are the cheaper, good-enough version of the gold standard, the data scientists. Where does it work, if anyplace at all?

In the business world, this windy new term is just another bauble. Business people will drop it soon enough.

Why? For one thing, we already call these guys business analysts, data analysts, self-service analysts, and other terms. But do data workers need a term at all? Hasn’t data become so commonplace by now that people with pretty good data skills go by the most ordinary name of all, which is no name at all?… Read the rest “The one place “citizen data scientist” makes sense”

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More tangible, less “smart”

November 14, 2017 by Ted Cuzzillo

First came the prediction: “The whole ‘smart’ thing is about to get real.” Really? What made this apparent insider say so? The prediction, given in a forum where other predictions flew in the breeze, was on the record. Then two months later, it had gone off the record.

What happened? Apparently, there had been a corporate-wide retreat from “smart” — as explained to me, a retreat from the aspirational to the tangible.

That’s unlike conventional marketing, which blows by the tangible in its rush toward aspiration. Does this portend a wider retreat from the term “smart”? Is it a shift toward a market that prefers the tangible over the dream?… Read the rest “More tangible, less “smart””

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