It's fun to speculate about what direction DS as a profession is going, but it's also instructive to dig into how it grew into its modern form. This paper's an example of that, a snapshot from a few years before the term itself was coined circa 2008 https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.ss/1009213726 …
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"Terrabytes of data are pouring into computers from many sources, both scientific, and commercial, and there is a need to analyze and understand the data," Breiman says, like a prophet foretelling HBR articles to come
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And reflecting on his work in the 90's (!!!), he was already seeing how crossfunctional this line of work can be: "there has been a noticeable move toward statistical work on real world problems and reaching out by statisticians toward collaborative work with other disciplines"
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The problems we're solving with data today are greater in scale and complexity, which means we're getting the luxury of focusing on narrower subsets of those problems. Now we ask for analysts, scientists, MLEs, analytics engineers, etc. instead of just DSes or statisticians
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