Here's a direct quote from her:
“Hacking is not something I ever thought they would accuse me of because I have never displayed any capability of doing that,” she said. “I’ve never taken any computer courses or anything like that. I do statistics in a software program designed basically to do all that stuff for you by clicking stuff.”
A data scientist is not someone who "clicks stuff."
[1] https://www.syracuse.edu/stories/rebekah-jones-covid-19-dash...
She specifically stated in the article I referenced that she "doesn't even know how to code" as a defense against the raid on her home for unauthorized access to the state of Florida's systems.
Your definition of data scientist is what anyone who actually knows what they are talking about calls a data analyst. Data scientists create models for supervised and unsupervised learning for either product or research purposes.
Jones is a hero of online-too-much partisans, and I'm going to take a wild guess you fall into that category.
The entire story has been a ringing example of how mainstream media outlets that were respectable 5 years ago have all turned into Buzzfeed.
In an organization as large as state government, it’s possible to have highly specialized roles with significant division of labor. In this case, she could be use SAS EG or Tableau on top of already built data sources created by engineers.
Not every organization requires a full stack DS resource who is running everything soup to nuts. In fact, I’d argue if an organization requires its DS resources to manage infrastructure and write a lot of code, they’re not doing a great job leaving to the DS resources what they’re best at—-science and linking the business to the science.
Leave the rest up to DEs and IT.
My denigration of Mrs. Jones would be identical if she were Mr. Jones, because it's fully focused on the fact that she was fired for insubordination by abusing her position as the maintainer of the dashboard to make unilateral decisions, like for example activating the CSV export functionality when one of the epidemiologists on her team was concerned that it was incomplete and was checking it against Johns Hopkins' data sources. She turned this firing into a PR stunt by falsely claiming (as it was later determined) that she was actually fired for protesting her team "hiding" covid deaths and hospitalizations. Naturally, these "hidden" deaths never materialized, because they were never there to begin with. She was proven a liar by late May, but her lies are politically convenient for the Democratic Party, and therefore she continues to be portrayed as a whistleblower by highly partisan outlets.
Apparently, you've never criticized a female in your entire life, and anyone who does must automatically be motivated by misogyny. The solution to this is for men to only work with other men, because how can you work with someone if you can't constructively criticize them? That's the world that your behavior will create.