I feel like statistician sounds boring / archaic so people rebranded it to data science to sound sexier and get more people interested. Thoughts?
More like business analytics
Pretty much. Data science maybe has a more computational approach.
Sometimes people sell ETL under DS brand.
Excel++
Funny, I just recently stumbled upon a Quora thread about this https://www.quora.com/Is-Machine-Learning-just-glorified-statistics
Absolutely not, Data Scientist is a made up term anyone can use
Duh