Hilary Mason, GM of machine learning at Cloudera, believes that there should be a change in “the default way we think about the practice of data.” Mason believes that people will demand more from companies in terms of their privacy and the security of the personal information that is collected about them.
Hugo Bowne-Anderson reports in the Harvard Business Review:
“Ethics is among the field’s biggest challenges. You may gather that the profession offers its practitioners a great deal of uncertainty. When I asked Hilary Mason in our first episode if any other major challenges face the data science community, she said, “Do you think that imprecise ethics, no standards of practice, and a lack of consistent vocabulary are not enough challenges for us today?”
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“The data science revolution across industries and society at large has just begun. Whether the title of data scientist will remain the “sexiest job of the 21st century,” will become more specialized, or will become a set of skills that most working professionals are simply required to have is unclear. As Hilary Mason told me: “Will we even have data science in 10 years? I remember a world where we didn’t, and it wouldn’t surprise me if the title goes the way of ‘webmaster.’”
Listen to Hilary Mason on the Architecht podcast.
