" Software engineering had emerged as a compelling solution to the
software crisis in part because it was flexible enough to appeal to a
wide variety of computing practitioners. The ambiguity of concepts such
as professionalism, engineering discipline, and efficiency allowed
competing interests to participate in a shared discourse that
nevertheless enabled them to pursue vastly different personal and
professional agendas"
In the chapter "Engineering a solution" of "The Computer Boys Take
Over:Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise" by
Nathan Ensmenger
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6277845&
For 'software engineering' read 'data science'?
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