> Why Didn’t Statisticians Own Big Data? Because they could not translate their sense of entitlement to actual results. > pure statisticians often scoff at th

> Why Didn’t Statisticians Own Big Data? Because they could not translate their sense of entitlement to actual results. > pure statisticians often scoff at the hype surrounding the rise of data scientists in the industry > some statisticians simply have no interest in carrying out scientific methods for business-oriented data science Statisticians are often too careful. They let tests decide if they should continue on a certain path. Machine learning researchers run blindfolded and trust cross-validation. The latter, though reckless, gets more impressive results. You can perfectly be a data scientist coming from a statistics or physics background. Adapt to it and use your knowledge to your advantage. You can't keep calling yourself a statistician and own data science at the same time. Start automating yourselves, like the rest of us are.