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I don't like how Numpy, Matplotlib and Pandas are portrayed as "Data Science". There is nothing particular to "Data" in these three packages. All I see is "Scie
by Derbasti 9y ago
I don't like how Numpy, Matplotlib and Pandas are portrayed as "Data Science". There is nothing particular to "Data" in these three packages. All I see is "Science".
All scientists need numerical simulations or evaluations, plotting, and statistics. That's what these libraries do. Not "Data Science", but "Science".
The correlation with TensorFlow/Keras suggests Data Science, maybe. But I bet there is a similar correlation with scikit-learn, Scipy, scikit-image, basemap, and heck, Matlab, Julia and R--and those each suggest different scientific endevours.
TL;DR: In my opinion, Python is becoming the language of Science, which includes, but is not limited to, Data Science.
- cjbillington 9y agoI'm still at a loss as to what type of science there is that doesn't have data. "Data science" to me seems like a buzzword that has connotations of a field or industry starting to use science where they previously didn't. Over here in academia it's just "science", or possibly "data analysis" if you want to emphasise that that's the part of your project you're working on right now as opposed to data collection.
- xapata 9y agoTheoretical physicists don't always use data. Many scientists sometimes use case studies instead of systematic data collection.
- cjbillington 9y agoEh. Case studies is still data. And the theoretical physicists that don't use data are criticised as not really doing science. Most theorists I know (I am in physics) are heavily data-driven.
- PeterisP 9y agoYou seem to treat "data science" as a subset of science, but it's really not - it generally is used to refer to the application of scientific methods to data analysis outside of "the field of science" in various business environments, and that is a much wider field with more people than those actually working in science.