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My experience across industries is that people don't know basic statistics or the value of statistics. I even came across a manager of a data science team at a
by IndianAstronaut 12y ago
My experience across industries is that people don't know basic statistics or the value of statistics. I even came across a manager of a data science team at a major company who did not know anything about statistical testing.
- superuser2 12y ago... what Data science is a buzzword substitution for statistics. How you could possibly have someone in a "data science" role without a statistics education is baffling.
- stdbrouw 12y agoIt's really not. Statisticians usually receive only minimal training in statistical programming, data cleaning, data gathering and warehousing and so on – yet those are all essential to data science. On top of that, when dealing with bigger data sets, many common statistical tests become irrelevant, as their main purpose is to make it possible to reason about small sample sizes. Of course, I don't mean to imply that a data scientist shouldn't have at least a basic statistical grounding: they do. But there's roles in data science for people with varying skills in programming, ops, statistics, ML, visualization and so on.