alt Hacker NewsIn 90s the show Friends, Chandler Bing’s job is “statistical analysis and data reconfiguration” which is likely unfamiliar to you because it is gone!
This was a job to manually collate financial reports into aggregated sums to sent up the hierarchy to the next level up.
This is now a trivial BI query and doesn’t require manual processing by humans.
A bigger shift is that now I only see CEOs or at most CxOs with secretaries. Mobile phones and Outlook calendars have largely wiped out that profession.
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> A bigger shift is that now I only see CEOs or at most CxOs with secretaries. Mobile phones and Outlook calendars have largely wiped out that profession.
Depends heavily on the field. Most fields don't use the term "secretary", but e.g. my mid-sized company of several hundred employees has a single executive assistant, vs. my wife works at a law firm where it's pretty close to 1:1 professionals to assistants.
> This is now a trivial BI query and doesn’t require manual processing by humans.
It also doesn't require AI. Management wants to see how the same measurements change over time. They don't necessarily want the latest AI model's hot take on this month's data. Or maybe they do, but I doubt it's very helpful.
See how all that was replaced by actual automation, and not by a stochastic parrot that is as likely to fail as not.
Wait, data analysis/data science is still a thriving human job sector! It's just that you can do way more analysis, way faster, than you could before.