Do You Want the Plumbing or the Sink?
Here at Blue Canary, we've made a reference to being a 'Data Janitor' on more than one occasion. There was this article/tweet from back in March: We've always called ourselves data janitors...great to see it highlighted. Thanks for the find, @johncwhitmer ! — Mike Sharkey (@mjshark) March 25, 2015 ...and also a mention on my last blog post about 'Free like kittens vs. free like beer'. So, in the spirit of our somewhat self-deprecating janitorial duties, I figured I dedicate a whole blog post to it. Here goes. The reference started out as a joke with a few of us in the company. We would be working on a predictive model or some complex data analysis problem, and then read an article about how data scientists are the hot, up-and-coming,…