If your data is currency such as access control to various amounts of bitcoin on the block chain, then you have surrendered your financial transaction history and potentially the value itself.

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While coding may not ultimately distinguish data science from other fields, it can provide the universal currency for data science stakeholders.

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And work it must, because as you know, data is the currency of tomorrow.

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