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Dataology would have been a great name. I would have loved to be a dataologist.


I am a dataologist, even if my title says software something something. Commercial software development is about getting data from point A to point B more than anything else. There's a little bit of logic, a little bit of munging, but almost all of what could be called an algorithm is done by a library or some other system--probably a database. It's maybe once a year that doing something algorithmic, e.g. reduce a regex to a hand-coded FSM, or write an exponentially decaying counter, is actually the best thing I can do to solve the problem at hand.




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