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A more cynical definition would add "... and who is worse at statistics than any statistician and worse at software engineering than any software engineer." ;)
by reinhardt 13y ago
A 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.