{"id":12352,"date":"2013-08-23T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T09:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=5669"},"modified":"2013-08-23T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T09:24:07","slug":"what-is-a-data-scientist-and-what-do-they-do-cartoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/what-is-a-data-scientist-and-what-do-they-do-cartoons.html","title":{"rendered":"What is a Data Scientist and What Do They Do? (Cartoons)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is a data scientist just a <a href=\"http:\/\/insideanalysis.com\/2013\/08\/a-data-science-rant\/\" target=\"_blank\">fancy name for a statistician<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/hiredbrains.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/20\/yabadas-yet-another-blog-about-data-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">actuary<\/a>? Or something else?:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/a-data-scientist-is-a-business-analyst-that-lives-in-california.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"a data scientist is a business analyst that lives in california\" alt=\"a data scientist is a business analyst that lives in california\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/a-data-scientist-is-a-business-analyst-that-lives-in-california_thumb.jpg?resize=690%2C518&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"690\" height=\"518\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(This data scientist is waiting for a mean wave. Or maybe mode, or median).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/danwoods\/2011\/10\/24\/linkedins-daniel-tunkelang-on-what-is-a-data-scientist\/\" target=\"_blank\">What do Data Scientists do<\/a>? Well, here\u2019s when you might need one &#8212; when you haven\u2019t done a good enough job of predictive analytics!:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/quick-somebody-find-me-a-data-scientist.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"quick, somebody find me a data scientist\" alt=\"quick, somebody find me a data scientist\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/quick-somebody-find-me-a-data-scientist_thumb.jpg?resize=690%2C518&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"690\" height=\"518\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a data scientist, and what do they do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[27,97,100,173,344,345],"class_list":["post-12352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cartoons","tag-bigdata","tag-analysts","tag-analytics","tag-big-data","tag-data-science","tag-data-scientist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/a-data-scientist-is-a-business-analyst-that-lives-in-california_thumb-1.jpg?fit=690%2C518&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-3de","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}