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		geezerjay on Dec 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Interview with an Anonymous Data Scientist (201... 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.

fnl on Dec 14, 2017 [–]

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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