But data science is more than coding. Coding is important part of a day job for a data scientist and it does define the discipline, but the moot point is about science bit of data science. The “science” part of data science means that as a “scientist”, the data person needs to “think” about edge cases and novel situations, set up theories, obtain data, think about what data to use and for what theory generation, a whole lot of things that AI, will _never_ be able to achieve. These are human traits.