Analysts have been doing data science long before Data Science was a thing, unless i am missing something, it's a rebranding of tasks that have always been performed.
My grandfather was an “analyst” for GE, which involved a lot of physical calculation, but also FORTRAN and COBOL. It used to be before programming became its own profession that managers, accountants, secretaries, and other disparate jobs were just expected to program off-handedly. It’s interesting that we’re somehow in the same place again, but in reverse, having to make new names for jobs that involve programming but not “software engineering”
Next week: this weeks sprint is behind schedule by 8 weeks, we need to push all sprints out by 6 months. Also we found some security vulns that need hot patched, which could either take 6 weeks or 6 months. We should probably bring the consultants back for another 12 weeks to get the ball rolling. We might be able to save a few weeks if we outsource some of the work to our subs in india...