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> Almost all CS people learn a good bit of statistics as part of their education > The crux behind the idea of being better than average at two things makes yo
by gloatyegret 6y ago
> Almost all CS people learn a good bit of statistics as part of their education
> The crux behind the idea of being better than average at two things makes you individually extraordinary is that the two skills are not correlated.
I don't know if "almost all CS people" come from better schools than mine, but I've never had a proper statistics course, and my degree has a "data science" stamp on it. Having good statistics skills, and not just good knowledge of some machine learning frameworks, is probably rarer than you think.
- phkahler 6y ago>> but I've never had a proper statistics course, and my degree has a "data science" stamp on it. How do they justify that? ML is not IMHO the same thing, but maybe times are changing?
- gloatyegret 6y agoI've given up trying to understand. The school focuses heavily on software development, and they don't seem willing to change the curriculum too drastically to make room for a good data science track. But they want to have one anyway... I wondered if my degree was an exception.