5 Ways to Get Fired as a Data Scientist

Okay, that headline was meant to get your attention. But lately, I've been thinking about this crazy circus we call data science and how everyone seems to think data scientists are invaluable, treasured, and potentially "un-fireable" in this age of data scientist negative unemployment. There are far too many comments on data science blogs talking about the best Kagglers and the latest approaches in "deep learning" and other technical parts of the discipline. And there are precious few posts about the reality of being a data scientist who needs to function with real human beings in an organization on a daily basis. So, I decided to step back and think of 5 pitfalls a data scientist could encounter which could lead to unemployment (yes, even really smart people get fired).