While pursuing PhD in Economics, I&#x27;ve supported myself working as a data scientist and, like ThePhysicist says, it&#x27;s fairly disappointing that many are oblivious of datasets, APIs, libraries,..<p>A good example of what can be done (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;econprediction.eecs.umich.edu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;econprediction.eecs.umich.edu&#x2F;</a>)<p>On the other side, the claim &quot;literary types who lack the talent or training to hack their way through systems of equations&quot; is groundless and mostly fallacious. The &quot;literary types&quot; have grasped many politicized inconsistencies and dedicate their research by deductive reasoning. Most of them are  not 9&#x2F;11 truthers.