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Yeah, I guess what I'm trying to say is that Data Science is really a "horizontal", not a "vertical" in academia, to borrow business jargon. It's an interdiscip
by kyllo 13y ago
Yeah, I guess what I'm trying to say is that Data Science is really a "horizontal", not a "vertical" in academia, to borrow business jargon. It's an interdisciplinary research skill set that students and scholars across academic disciplines should be trained in. As such, I'm not convinced it needs its own degree programs, though.
- dragonwriter 13y agoI think the quality of work being done in the disciplines you call "verticals" is improved by increasing the degree of development in the "horizontals" -- and that includes recognizing that those "horizontals" are legitimate fields of focus on their own, because the further development and focus on the "horizontal" feeds back into the tool sets available to all the "verticals" the "horizontal" touches.