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The impression I got from the "cs/se/stats" remark was it was the fusion of all three disciplines. A statistician can't sit down and pull data from a MySQL tabl
by anonymousleaf 13y ago
The impression I got from the "cs/se/stats" remark was it was the fusion of all three disciplines. A statistician can't sit down and pull data from a MySQL table, and certainly can't write a library to gather data on users on the site. As someone that's basically in this exact confluence point, I can tell you that there is very much interplay between the statistics and the software engineering and computer science disciplines.
- csirac2 13y agoHmm. What kind of statistician these days can't pull data from a MySQL table? Even the almost-retired people I know have to interact with data sources in some SQL product or another.
- darkxanthos 13y agoHN is not "average". False consensus effect: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False-consensus_effect http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False-consensus_effect
- csirac2 13y agoI hardly think I'm special for posting on HN. Have you read job adverts with "statistician" in the title? In order to do your day-job as a statistician you need to work with data products and tools which require more than MS Office type computer skills.