Over the last year, I've noticed a drastic influx of how many Business Leaders/Managers and also Software Engineers refer to everyone in the data space as an analyst. Be it a machine learning engineer, data scientist, data analyst, data engineer, decision scientist, whatever - they're all being labeled as analysts.

This is sticking out to me because previously people were better at making distinctions between the titles/roles.

Makes me wonder a few things: * Am I the only one seeing this? * Could this be a result in how the overlap between the work of each of these roles has increased significantly? * Maybe this is just people getting tired of using more specific labels? * Could be toxic people trying to downplay data science, IE: "Analytics is the new IT help desk:

What do other people here think?

Edit for claritifcation: I'm more specifically addressing situations where someone has the tittle/position of Data Scientist or Machine Learning Engineer but is then frequently refered to as an analyst in many internal communications.