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I would totally disagree with the term "Data Science." It maybe used loosely but it certainly is more than statistics and more akin to science. Any inter discip
by baldfat 11y ago
I would totally disagree with the term "Data Science." It maybe used loosely but it certainly is more than statistics and more akin to science. Any inter discipline study has these issues.
It is science since you are taking data to answer a question. If your not answering a question or using a scientific method it falls short.
Good example is all the medical data science that has been happening in the past decade or so. http://www.oreilly.com/data/free/how-data-science-is-transforming-health-care.csp http://www.oreilly.com/data/free/how-data-science-is-transfo...
- fluidcruft 11y agoI think the danger with opaque terms like "nanotech" and "data science" is they are so ill-defined that they become Rorschach tests. This is very good at attracting buy in--people see what they want to see and the get cover by joining a larger movement and get to ride the trend's growth. But then eventually everyone's doing "nanotech" or "data science" and people need to use other terms to clarify. Data science is already much more than statistics. That's why the term was invented in the first place. Additionally, your definition of science seems pretty lacking. Merely using data to answer questions isn't what defines science. Some questions are scientific and some are not.
- arcanus 11y agoI dislike prepending data as a title, because it was already implicit to any scientific discipline.