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I think it’s because data science has a more immediate, broader applicability than computer science. Not everybody needs to know how to program a full applicati
by QML 9y ago
I think it’s because data science has a more immediate, broader applicability than computer science. Not everybody needs to know how to program a full application; but they should be able to load in a dataset and statistically analyze it. Looking at the type of people taking Data 8 compared to CS61A (the introductory programming course), I would say the former is a fairly diverse crowd (political science majors, economics majors, biology majors, etc.)
It is also a possibility that Data Science is an easier topic to learn than Computer Science, and thus more popular.
- itronitron 9y agoIt might be more popular as many data science courses use Python and therefore students don't have to get their code to compile. Seriously though, I think people are drawn to data science out of a desire to create stories with some underlying support (data/evidence) in order to influence policy or business decisions.
- Ar-Curunir 9y ago61A also uses Python.
- heedlessly3 9y ago>It is also a possibility that Data Science is an easier topic to learn than Computer Science, and thus more popular. This might seem so due to mainstream marketing. But that's not true. To be truly good at Data Science, you must know a chunk of Computer Science fundamentals and Statistics