Anyone here work as a Data Scientist? If so would you be able to say what kind of things you get up to in an average day?

Only Nostradamus (1503–1566) would be able to do this:)

Or possibly:
Edgar Cayce (1877–1945)
Baba Wanga (1911–1996)
Maharishi Bhrigu (1500-500 BC)
Anna Ulrica Arfvidsson (1734 – 1801)
Jakob Lorber (1800 – 1864)
Dan Katchongva (1860 – 1972)

Unfortunately, they're all dead.

The only left would be Kira Radinsky ( *1986 )
TED: https://youtube.com/watch/...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kiraradinsky

It's never too late to find out about history and, well, the future :)

the endless phone calls at 6am and the idiot questions of math people, please just let this hell end

@BindView is it mostly about using existing frameworks like TensorFlow, or is it more mathsy?

@Scanner "this program you wrote with the clear specification that it should only run on one specific input is now not working on multiple inputs and also i dont know how to doubleclick a jar file, fix it"

@BindView isn't the main point of machine learning that it should work with different input? ;)

No ++? It took me half an hour to get the answer and all the dates of birth. :(

@tracktraps wasn't quite sure what you were on about, haha

@tracktraps that ted talk was pretty amazing, though

@Scanner To be honest, I misunderstood his question. I thought he wanted to look into the future and find out what data he'll receive.

That's why Nostradamus came into play.

I should probably read a little slower in the future :)

who said anything about machine learning

@BindView I guess I was wrong to assume data science as a dev was mostly various machine learning stuff. Good thing I asked, I'm trying to see if it's something I'd enjoy doing. You do something different, in that case?

@tracktraps ahah, I see. Happens to me too sometimes, lol

Most of what i do is basically receiving sample raw data, coming up with an algorithm that would process that data and then applying it on insanely powerful systems to infinitely generated data, whith minimum latency. Its mostly weather stuff, predicting tornadoes and such

@BindView oh, wow, that's actually pretty cool. I was afraid it might be too math focused, but that sounds like fun :)