Like asking, "Why do we need software engineering when we've had computer science for a century." They're not different things, in any meaningful sense. Data sc

Like asking, "Why do we need software engineering when we've had computer science for a century." They're not different things, in any meaningful sense. Data scientists use statistics, combined with the power of computers, to make computations that would have been difficult to do a century ago. But they aren't different disciplines like this guy seems to think.