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They should change the title. It is not a book for programmers about implementation of data science techniques. It is a book for managers about concerns surroun
by wrp 4y ago
They should change the title. It is not a book for programmers about implementation of data science techniques. It is a book for managers about concerns surrounding the application of data science in various domains. The title should be something like "Social Concerns in the Application of Data Science."
- zelphirkalt 4y agoSocial concerns are as a concern for engineers, as they are for their managers. However, I agree on changing the title somewhat, in order to indicate, that this is not a book about computer programming.
- urthor 4y agoIt's a book for data scientists. Data scientists are not software engineers. They analyze data, they don't produce applications. Not everything in the world is written for the benefit of software engineers.
- robertlagrant 4y agoPrevious poster didn't mention software engineers.
- PeekPoke 4y agoprogrammers != software engineers?
- saturnaga 4y agoYea I thought that was common knowledge.
- wahnfrieden 4y agosame shit
- feoren 4y agoIf you're privy to the top-secret distinction between the two that nobody else knows, please share it.
- wrp 4y agoWhile data science is not principally about programming, I think that having Norvig as one of the authors will lead to false expectations of the book unless the title is made more informative.
- antipaul 4y agoI agree with you - mostly. But in the book, computation is one of the three braids comprising data science. And they include software engineering in computation. See book sections 1.2, 1.2.4, 2.1.3 etc — What I am trying to untie is, should data engineering be distinguished from data science, or not?
- saturnaga 4y agoI think a more philosophical text by Norvig is quite welcome. This is better than yet another machine learning algorithm book.
- wrp 4y agoI didn't say there was anything wrong with the book, just the title.