But DJ Patil, Chief Data Scientist and Director of Product Analytics at LinkedIn, thinks differently.

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Mingsheng Hong is Chief Data Scientist at Hadapt, a Boston-based startup that offers an analytical platform that integrates structured and unstructured data in one cloud-optimized system.

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We continue our series on the emerging role of the data scientist, by talking to Pat Hanrahan, chief scientist and co-founder of Tableau Software.

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On Monday I attended a dinner hosted by Andreas Weigend, former Chief Scientist at Amazon and head of the Social Data Lab at Stanford University.

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But Gilmartin and his chief scientist, Peter Kim, repeatedly pointed to a silver lining in the data.

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As part of this mission, I had a fascinating conversation recently with Mok Oh, Chief Scientist at PayPal, about the nature of the current state of big data infrastructure and applications.

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Dr. Andreas Weigend, former Chief Scientist at Amazon.com who now teaches at Stanford and directs the Social Data Lab, delivered an excellent presentation titled How to Use Social Data to Rewrite the Rules.

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Karen Miller Kovach , its chief scientist, says the decision was made because there's no long-term data to show that weight-loss programs for children work.

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"We have had very detailed mapping of that basin from images, from orbital spectral data, but we have not had high-resolution of its interior structure, " Grail's chief scientist, Prof Maria Zuber, who has been speaking at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in The Woodlands, Texas, told BBC News.

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