[Informatics] Data scientists really love their jobs

[Mark]

That's an interesting point, Ken. At the risk of diverging into off topic
territory...

I've just finished reading 'How to Fly a Horse' by Kevin Ashton, which
looks at creativity.
It got me to thinking that creative thought requires a *disorderly*
thinking pattern that challenges previous ideas. That's *why* it's
creative.
But truly creative thinking is stressful because it's unprecedented,
unbounded, and its success is hard to measure..
That's why many creative people rely so much on getting feedback - to see
whether they're on track.

But procedural, methodical and logical, thinking (such as organising,
sorting, categorising) is comfortable because the objective is nicely
defined and has clear parameters.
Its success is easy to judge, and it's easy to tell when the job is
finished.

I find that the two thinking styles balance each other, and I think most
people get satisfaction from both of them.
It's a thrill to walk the tightrope, but it's also satisfying to pack up
the rope as neatly as possible after the event..
Everybody can do both, but everyone has a preference of one over the other.

I think.

Regards
Mark


On 21 April 2017 at 21:34, Ken Price <kenjprice at gmail.com> wrote:

> The intellectual satisfaction of doing some of these types of tasks is
> worth researching. Kids have chances to see if they enjoy creating music,
> running marathons, acting in plays, performing experiments and drawing
> pictures, but perhaps this is an area many don't ever experience.
>
> Many of our schools have found that a few kids who do the Bebras
> computational thinking competition find it very rewarding, and have never
> encountered this stuff before.
>
> ken
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 21 Apr 2017, at 1:08 am, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> A report indicates that data scientists are especially happy when
> building, modelling, mining data or refining algorithms. They are grumpy
> when cleaning, sorting and tagging data. I get that too when I have to sort
> out the single socks each week.
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/article/data-scientists-really-love-
> their-jobs-survey-finds/
>
>
> --
>
> *Roland GESTHUIZEN*http://about.me/rgesthuizen
>
>
>
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