I dislike that "substantive domain knowledge" has here been replaced with "communications skills." Science stands on the shoulders of giants, and ignorance of what has come before doesn't do that.
Being able to spin a good yarn isn't really enough here. If data science just becomes a code word for brogramming your way through a set of black-box ML algorithms, then I will welcome the inevitable crash of data science.
If insight is the goal, then classic applied statistics plus reproducibility feels like a much better story. At least if insight rather than "making it go" is the goal.
Being able to spin a good yarn isn't really enough here. If data science just becomes a code word for brogramming your way through a set of black-box ML algorithms, then I will welcome the inevitable crash of data science.
If insight is the goal, then classic applied statistics plus reproducibility feels like a much better story. At least if insight rather than "making it go" is the goal.