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Here's another factual error: Data science is from the 1960s, and was used first in a paper published by Peter Naur in 1974: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_
by fnl 9y ago
Here's another factual error: Data science is from the 1960s, and was used first in a paper published by Peter Naur in 1974: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_science
- geezerjay 9y agoData science is actually statistics, which goes quite a bit further than the 1960s. In fact, today's data scientists love to quote Box and Fischer. Data science and data mining are victories of marketing over common sense.
- fnl 9y agoSorry, I meant that in the sense of the origin of the term. But yes, DS is mostly just another word for statistics. About as pointless as the term AI has become.