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Calling it Data Science was a tell. Have you noticed how non-scientific things add "science" to the name to make it sound like it has scientific rigor? Data Sc

• lajosbacs 4y ago
  I too am critical of data science, but I think that this is a bit unfair. The scientific part could be called just 'statistics'.
  • laichzeit0 4y ago
    Should we call deep learning “statistics”? It’s mostly empirical. Should recommendation systems be called “statistics”? What about multi objective non convex optimization? Not everyone is doing regression and classification all day. The above were studied in the Computer Science curriculum at my university. I work with a statistician, like someone with a degree in mathematical statistics. They know nothing about any of those.
    • disgruntledphd2 4y ago
      > Not everyone is doing regression and classification all day. Yeah, some of them are doing unsupervised learning (recommender systems) too! I dunno, I personally think we'd all have been better off if we'd called it statistics as at least then people would realise that the field wasn't created yesterday.
• r-zip 4y ago
  Computer science...