Data Scientists Choose The Data

Description

The meme is a three-panel anime collage: the left panel shows a classroom scene with a seated student labeled "users," while the right panel focuses on an empty desk stain labeled "data" and a person labeled "data scientists." The large bottom panel shows a distorted, intense cartoon face pressed toward a glowing puddle labeled "data," with the face labeled "data scientists." The joke is that data scientists can become more fascinated by extracted behavioral data than by the actual users who produced it, satirizing metric-driven work that forgets the human system behind the dataset.