http://www.cseprograms.gatech.edu/csephd http://www.cseprograms.gatech.edu/csephd I think a subset of that program would be rightly called data scientists. Th

http://www.cseprograms.gatech.edu/csephd http://www.cseprograms.gatech.edu/csephd I think a subset of that program would be rightly called data scientists. There is significant overlap, but statisticians are stronger in mathematical theory while data scientists are stronger in programming and computation. At least that's how I see it. It's not particularly well defined at the moment, and a lot of people throw these words around because they're new and fun.