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Comment by ProjectArcturis

8 days ago

Yeah, it's just tremendously embarrassing. These are supposed to be the tech geniuses who can parse 50 years of accumulated legacy code and find all the government waste? In 3 weeks?

Data science and websites are different beasts.

  • I'm not yet sure whether they are even doing data science.

    Anecdote time (pinch of salt required):

    A relative of mine studying accounting went to the Doge site to see the "audit" and "analytics" records that some acquaintance arguing with her said "see the doge site!" for the proof.

    What she found when visiting the site was no "audit" at all, but instead a word count of how often objectional terms appear in legislation or government sites. (DEI? Trans? LGBTQ?).

    Being in the analytics/data engineering space myself, I was pretty amused to hear that was the quality of "analytics" being done.

    Wasn't "word count" the "hello world" example for Hadoop big data back in 2013?

  • Some of the "data science" people I've met certainly believed that they could architect entire software systems just because they understood how to structure data in databases.