From about 2012 to 2018 I went round a lot of universities, conferences and companies doing presentations and I used to often ask the audience for a definition of data science (in the hope of getting a good one). The best one I heard came at the University of Bath where someone (I know who, but he didn't say it to back it with his reputation so it's not fair to name him - it wasn't me though) said "Just drop the data, it's science".
I totally think that - Data Science is about doing Science with found and evolving data sources, we aren't often able to construct our experiments from scratch, but we often get to augment them, but we always start from the data we are given - which is why it's a sub-field.
In any case - the Ph.D's I have employed have almost all known how to do Science, and it has really helped. Some people without a Ph.D. learn to do it. Experimental Ph.D's are best.
Maths and theoretical Physics Ph.D's are generally not able to do this!
Will you employ data scientist that have articles and years of expirience as data analyst in University but not Ph.D? How much role will be lack of Ph.D in this case?
As I said - if the person is capable of independent scientific investigation then I think they'd be good. I think that a Ph.D is formal training for that - but not the only way to learn.
From about 2012 to 2018 I went round a lot of universities, conferences and companies doing presentations and I used to often ask the audience for a definition of data science (in the hope of getting a good one). The best one I heard came at the University of Bath where someone (I know who, but he didn't say it to back it with his reputation so it's not fair to name him - it wasn't me though) said "Just drop the data, it's science".
I totally think that - Data Science is about doing Science with found and evolving data sources, we aren't often able to construct our experiments from scratch, but we often get to augment them, but we always start from the data we are given - which is why it's a sub-field.
In any case - the Ph.D's I have employed have almost all known how to do Science, and it has really helped. Some people without a Ph.D. learn to do it. Experimental Ph.D's are best.
Maths and theoretical Physics Ph.D's are generally not able to do this!