>Science creates knowledge via controlled experiments, so a data query isn’t an experiment. An experiment suggests controlled conditions; data scientists stare

>Science creates knowledge via controlled experiments, so a data query isn’t an experiment. An experiment suggests controlled conditions; data scientists stare at data that someone else collected, which includes any and all sample biases. As he said himself in the next paragraph, this would also not include things like astronomy. You can't just redefine science to mean "just doing experiments." Interpreting the data is at least half the work of science. If you are a bayesian, then doing experiments is nothing more than a necessary evil of getting more data so you can do more actual science. And since when don't data scientists do experiments? A lot of work goes into collecting data, and there are things like active learning. The conclusion he reaches article doesn't seem well supported, and in fact I'm not even sure he knows what a Data Scientist is based on his description.