If all they can use is a massive cleaver (big data tools), and have no experience with scalpels (small, sharp, cheap and fast data tools), IMO your company has a serious, fundamental and systemic problem (no, let's call it failure) towards employee experience, training and knowledge. Edit: and resource management.
Seems to be a sort of inverse of the massive spreadsheets that run supply chains on accretions of spaghetti-macros.
But, a tree chipper can serve as a paper shredder, and I imagine a lot of shops in certain markets saw it as a sort of prestige asset around 5-8 years back, when a bunch of companies started hiring data scientists for no apparent rational reason.
(Not bashing data scientists or data companies. Just remembering the fad that went around Bay Area companies a while ago.)
