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What should we learn from the short-lived career of Data Scientists?

Tarek Amr
CodeX
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5 min readMar 3, 2021

I am arguing here that within a handful of years, Data Scientists will become just Software Engineers (SWEs). Just like Front-end and Back-end engineers, we will have Machine Learning Engineers (MLEs). However, in this post, I want to make sure that we will learn the right lessons from their short-lived career.

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Tarek Amr
CodeX
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I write about what machines can learn from data, what humans can learn from machines, and what businesses can learn from all three.