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0 pointsfnl8y ago0 comments

Here's another factual error: Data science is from the 1960s, and was used first in a paper published by Peter Naur in 1974: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_science

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geezerjay8y ago

Data science is actually statistics, which goes quite a bit further than the 1960s. In fact, today's data scientists love to quote Box and Fischer.

Data science and data mining are victories of marketing over common sense.

fnlOP8y ago

Sorry, I meant that in the sense of the origin of the term. But yes, DS is mostly just another word for statistics. About as pointless as the term AI has become.

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