Data Pseudo-Science: Selling Garbage to Data Illiterates

Thomas Baumgartner
9 min readFeb 25, 2023

The dark side of data science no one talks about.

Image created by the author using DALL-E 2.

Gregory had been working as a bank consultant for two years. He was good with numbers, and he had people skills, making it easy for him so sell finance products to his clients. When COVID hit the world economy, Gregory lost his job and looked for an alternative which allowed working from home. Luckily, he had some…

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Thomas Baumgartner

Physicist (PhD), engineer, software developer, data manager / analysist, photographer, musician, and (as of late) writer. Lives in Vienna, Austria.