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Friday, February 08, 2019

Who is a Citizen Data Scientist?

When I saw the term at first, I wondered too.  In part part because of the 'scientist' part.    Does this assume the particular 'method' we know, or does it just mean more casual use?   Its usually also a  journalist as well, because they want to leverage some piece with it.   Not sure I agree that everyone is talking about it, unless you are the target of such a piece.   Does it require open data science?

Who, Who, Who…Are You Citizen Data Scientist?   By Mike Gualtieri, Vice President, Principal Analyst,   Forrester

Ugh. Everyone is talking about the citizen data scientist, but no one can define it (perhaps they know   one when they see one). Here goes. The simplest definition of a citizen data scientist is: non-data scientist. That’s not a pejorative. It just means that citizen data scientists nobly desire to do data science but are not formally schooled in all the ins and outs of the data science lifecycle. For example, a citizen data scientist may be quite savvy about what enterprise data is likely to be important to create a model but may not know the difference between GBM, random forester, and SVM. Those algorithms are data scientist geek to many of them. The citizen data scientist’s job is not data science. Rather they use it as a tool to get their job done.  Here is my definition of the enterprise citizen data scientist:

A business person who aspires to use data science techniques such as machine learning to discover new insights and create predictive models to improve business outcomes.  ..... " 

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