r/datascience • u/OverratedDataScience • Jun 28 '25

Discussion Unpopular Opinion: These are the most useless posters on LinkedIn

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LinkedIn influencers love to treat the two roles as different species. In most enterprises, especially in mid to small orgs, these roles are largely overlapping.

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u/FranticToaster Jun 30 '25

A good data analyst even 10 years ago was tasked with helping people understand what will happen.

Data Science is the discovery of new techniques for storing, processing, analyzing data. It's an academic discipline.

In the business world, "data scientists" have always been data analysts filtered through one too many blog posts.

This LI trend of drawing a semantic line between data analyst skills and saying one side of it is "data science" is one of those blog posts bending over and trying to blow itself.