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Every time I hear "Data Scientist" my skin crawls. Why is "statistician" not a good enough title? That is what "Data Science" is, statistics.
by worik 3y ago
Every time I hear "Data Scientist" my skin crawls.
Why is "statistician" not a good enough title? That is what "Data Science" is, statistics.
- Jensson 3y agoPeople invent new words to avoid the baggage of old words all the time. Statistics has a lot of old associations and negative connotations, data science sounded fresh.
- raspasov 3y agoThe Eat Fresh Refresh.
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- epgui 3y agoI’ve always felt that “data science” is for people who want to do the job of a statistician but who don’t know what a statistician does haha
- notsurenymore 3y agoI don’t think I’ve ever seen a job listing for a “statistician” outside government roles.
- dleeftink 3y agoThat's quite likely seeing how the term originally designated "the analysis of data about the state" [1]. [1]: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/statistics https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/statistics
- modriano 3y agoThe title "data scientist" was massively overloaded over the past decade, so while it might mean "statistician" on one team, it might mean business analyst, visualization designer, data engineer, or a number of other things that are outside the core skillset of a statistician on another team.