“I’m trying to give data scientists a sort of wider sense of what their expertise is… it becomes less essential to be the person writing the code… more important to help an organization figure out what code to write, implement, and test for usefulness.”

Ben Green · The Tech Policy Press Podcast · A Data Science Playbook for Social Justice

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advocates shifting data scientists' role to "data strategists" who focus on identifying, implementing, and testing code that aligns with organizational strategy and social impact rather than writing all code themselves

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