Rebranding Data Scientists as Data Alchemists

The more I think about it, maybe the term Data Alchemists is more accurate than Data Scientists. For one thing Alchemy itself is regarded as a protoscience, which aptly describes the body of skills under the heading of Data Science. Secondly Alchemy describes what good Data Scientists do: they turn data into insights

a power or process of transforming something common into something special

The title Data Scientist itself is a misnomer: most Data Science practitioners are actually either engineers or artists by training, so Alchemist is the more descriptive title.

Finally, the book The Alchemy of Data is just waiting to be written :-)

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