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Here's the source for the paraphrased quote: https://twitter.com/josh_wills/status/198093512149958656 https://twitter.com/josh_wills/status/198093512149958656
by numlocked 13y ago
Here's the source for the paraphrased quote: https://twitter.com/josh_wills/status/198093512149958656 https://twitter.com/josh_wills/status/198093512149958656
"Data Scientist (n.): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician."
- christopheraden 13y agoThat's the one I was looking for. Thanks!
- reinhardt 13y agoA more cynical definition would add "... and who is worse at statistics than any statistician and worse at software engineering than any software engineer." ;)
- dbecker 13y agoI don't think you have to be very cynical to take that view. I'm a data scientist, and I'll readily admit that your definition describes me well.
- darkxanthos 13y agoAs a person who falls mostly into this camp I laughed at this since there is a grain of truth to it in my experience. There's also a certain scrappy pragmatism to being in this kind of role. Statisticians and software engineers tend to forget their technical ability is not innately valuable.