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totally agree. Have been consulting in the data world for some years now. Most companies want to do data science but they have so many low hanging fruit that it makes no sense to do any ML. If they actually manage to get a senior data scientist hired then they typically torture them with boring BI dashboard creation.

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BI dashboard creation is torture in the same sense that creating web applications might be torture for a software developer. In other words, if you find it to be torture you are probably in the wrong field. At the end of the day I've found myself much happier as an engineer when I am less focused on the tools I am using and instead the impact I can have on the business I am serving. If a BI dashboard provides that value, then that is fun because I am making an impact. Maybe more so than if I was using a complicated RNN somewhere when it provided little value.

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