company culture, and the types of data,
software and mathematical tools utilized
in their work. Other volunteers participated in a series of focus groups with us to
provide us with additional, more detailed
input for our research.
Well, given that we were studying
the world of people who work with large
amounts of data, it seems somehow appropriate that we found ourselves with
a whole lot of data to analyze. But over
the past year or so, we managed to test
our long list of research hypotheses and
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come up with some interesting findings.
One discovery was that there were
in fact many significant differences
between those with the job title “data
scientist” and those with more traditional job titles such as business analyst, statistician, industrial engineer and
six-sigma black belt. (We also discovered that there were a startling number of job titles and organizational
structures that our data-centric survey
respondents fell under.)
While some of the findings were not
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