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Why there are so many Imposters in Data Science?

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Over the past few years, We have all witnessed an explosion in the number of articles, videos, online courses and job offers that are all talking about "Data Science" and Data scientists". “Portrait of an Impasto Imposter” by Eric Wayne This explosion has attracted people curiosity, and resulted in more and more "hype" around this "new" Science ( I will explain later why I put "new" between " " ) The trend above, shows how the world got interested in the term data science over time. What we see here is a proof that around 2011-2012, the world became more and more interested in searching about data science. What is Data science after all? I have written previously about this, you can read the whole article here. It is a bit difficult to put a general definition to the Data Science field as many companies and data scientists prefer to generalize and to include various activities and tasks to suit the reality, the needs a...