We hired a data science consultant firm at my job and one of the citations in the final report was a twitter thread. The bar is not that high.

you can tell op isnt a data scientist because real data scientists actually enter an incandescent rage anytime someone uses Excel over R

Half of computer science is formatting plain text files so that proprietary software can format them nicely for the management.

is it really a science if it doesn't involve scientific inquiry?

No I think science is just putting number in spreadsheets until you get the right graphs