Calling it Data Science was a tell. Have you noticed how non-scientific things add "science" to the name to make it sound like it has scientific rigor?
Data Science, Political Science, Social Science, Scientology
Compare to Physics, Biology, Math.
Data Science, Political Science, Social Science, Scientology
Compare to Physics, Biology, Math.
Not everyone is doing regression and classification all day.
The above were studied in the Computer Science curriculum at my university. I work with a statistician, like someone with a degree in mathematical statistics. They know nothing about any of those.
Yeah, some of them are doing unsupervised learning (recommender systems) too!
I dunno, I personally think we'd all have been better off if we'd called it statistics as at least then people would realise that the field wasn't created yesterday.