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>It attracts non-programmers If employers are hiring non-statisticians as data scientists then the problem is the employers.
by darkhorn 7y ago
>It attracts non-programmers
If employers are hiring non-statisticians as data scientists then the problem is the employers.
- missosoup 7y agoStats and programming aren't mutually exclusive. The current generation of DS graduates are strong in both. Job applicants who only know R and have no grasp of SE are increasingly less and less competitive. I don't expect there'll be any market for them in another 5 years.
- darkhorn 7y agoIn Statistics they teach programming. For example we have studied one semester C, one semester OOP (C++), one semester SQL and relational database design. All these were must courses. Other than these also R, Matlab, Minitab, SPSS and SAS. All of my classmates knew programming. It is stupid to think that in this age a statistician won't be able to write a program. How you are going to make analyses of a population census in a country as a statistician? Statistical packages do not always provide all you need. Sometimes you need to transform a data. Sometimes you need to check/validate a data. Sometimes you need to query from an X location. Sometimes you need to pipe through some process. Few people from our department wrote R packages that didn't exist (new statistical analyses).