Data science needs statisticians. Big data and machine learning courses do not teach about such things as endogeneity, confounding variables, sampling bias etc.

Data science needs statisticians. Big data and machine learning courses do not teach about such things as endogeneity, confounding variables, sampling bias etc. and how to deal with them. Data scientists that do not understand these things could end up making big mistakes: https://youtu.be/0cizsKDn3TI https://youtu.be/0cizsKDn3TI