Cloud Computing: Will the rise of self-service BI tools lead to the demise of the data scientist?
April 15, 2014
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Nicole Laskowski.
Is this the beginning of the end for the vaunted data scientist? That’s the clever pitch from Tableau Software, one of a handful of business intelligence vendors pushing the envelope on self-service BI tools. Because the software’s user interface offers drag-and-drop features, even users without a strong math background can build visualizations and interrogate the data, the vendor promises.
Tableau isn’t the only one with a strong self-service play. More and more vendors are offering analytical packaged applications that mask the complexity of analytics on the back end with easy-to-use features, which begs the question: Are data scientists just experiencing their 15 minutes of fame?…
Dan Sommer, a Gartner analyst, doesn’t think so. At the Gartner BI and Analytics Summit, he argued that while access to self-service tools may put analytics into the hands of just about every employee, it won’t eliminate the role of the data scientist altogether. "You don’t give a Ferrari to someone who just got their driver’s license," Sommer said…
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