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I'm not sure about machine learning specifically, but I heard somewhere that a data scientist is someone who does statistics, on a Mac, in San Francisco.
by edbaskerville 7y ago
I'm not sure about machine learning specifically, but I heard somewhere that a data scientist is someone who does statistics, on a Mac, in San Francisco.
- higginsc 7y agoCan confirm
- nudpiedo 7y agoOr in Berlin eating a Big Mac. Now let’s go back to the system admin dungeon stereotype.
- PopeDotNinja 7y agoAfter spending 80% of their time cleaning up garbage input data.
- rumanator 7y ago...and aftet spending 15% plotting graphs and diagrams.
- alexgmcm 7y agoThe other one is: > What’s the difference between statistics and machine learning? > About $50k a year.
- jimbokun 7y agoAnd there's this helpful translator: http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/stat315a/glossary.pdf http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/stat315a/glossary.pdf