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There's no such thing as data science. It's applied statistics. Why invent a silly name?

• twelve40 9y ago
  As evident in the comments, it means different things to different people, from straight up Excel to R etc. IMHO, the best data science people I've dealt with have supreme knowledge of statistics and math, combined with the ability to dive deep into python, R, Tableau, viz tools, d3, whatever is needed to get the job done. They generally rely on data engineers to provide sane data, but can jump in as needed and write tools (or at least give guidance) to properly clean up the data themselves. In this context, the GUI vs. non-GUI seems kind of irrelevant.
• tomrod 9y ago
  Because "The person you hire into your business to be the crazy mad scientist in the corner who helps with decision making, business development, analysis, and occasionally reporting" is to long for most standard business cards and even most respectable email signatures.
  • jsilence 9y ago
    I'd love to have a bcard with the official job title "mad german scientist". that would be groceartig!