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0 pointsgeezerjay8y ago0 comments

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.

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fnl8y 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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fnl8y 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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