Thread by @tunguz

I posted this back in January:

I've worked for 4 different tech companies in various Data Science roles. For my day job I have never ever had to deal with text, audio, video, or image data. 1/4

Based on the informal conversations I've had with other data scientists, this seems to be the case for the vast majority of them. 2/4

Almost a year later this remains largely true: for the *core job* related DS/ML work, I have still not used any of the aforementioned data. However, for work-related/affiliated *research* I have worked with lots of text data. 3/4

Text is slowly gaining more prominence in *conjunction* with relational data in the day-job of many Data Scientists. However, tabular data remains the cornerstone of what Data Science is still about in most work environments. 4/4