Why Business Data Science Irritates Me - by shako

This post is about my gripes as an industry insider, not intended to discourage anyone from pursuing it as a career. I'm forever grateful I have a job where I can do the one thing I enjoy doing and earn a solid living. His post doesn't have a single point, but goes through all the aspects of industry data science that drove him crazy. You should check it out. Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. I resonated with his post so much that I felt compelled to write my reasons for being frustrated with industry data science, and what I think you can practically do about it if you feel the same way. Having worked as a data scientist for seven years, I've grown weary. The standard new data scientist is typically an academically minded person who gave up about $500k in opportunity cost (versus had they gone into industry as a data analyst or software engineer) to first do academic research that qualifies them for roughly the same salary.