Buzzword Originator: Bits from LinkedIn

November 11, 2019

DarkCyber spotted “What on Earth Is a Data Scientist? The Buzzword’s Inventor DJ Patil Spills All.” The write up contained an interesting factoid:

The term “data scientist,” virtually unheard of just a few years ago, now returns over 25,000 results on LinkedIn’s Jobs page—that’s a solid 2,000 more than the search results of the universally trendy “financial analyst” (at least to us New Yorkers).

How valid is the phrase? We noted this statement from DJ Patel, a former LinkedIn professional and adviser to President Obama:

“But because I was working at LinkedIn, I just tested all the job titles we could think of to see which one would get the most interest from job applicants. Turns out that everybody wanted to be a data scientist, so we’re like, OK, that is what we will call ourselves.”

The hot title? Just marketing it seems.

Stephen E Arnold, November 12, 2019

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