33 ms·

No such thing as “Data science” - just a fancy term for trade school computer skills. Thats why.

• wolfgke 8y ago
  > No such thing as “Data science” - just a fancy term for trade school computer skills. Thats why. Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/435/ https://xkcd.com/435/ Or as my friend put it: everything is just a trivial special case of either mathematics or physics. ;-)
  • gronne 8y ago
    True :) I know the strip. tbh I just felt like trolling the insecure “data hackers” crowd. Looking at downvotes: I think it worked.
  • everybodyknows 8y ago
    Fun xkcd, but mathematics does not belong on a continuum of the scientific disciplines, all of which seek to describe nature. "Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kronecker https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kronecker Verbose, highly literal translation: "Loving God created the absolute integers; all else is the work of humanity."