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Origins of the Data Science Species

Origins of the Data Science Species

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Michael David Cobb Bowen
Apr 14, 2022
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Q: What is a data scientist? What do they do? Why are they important?

A: I don’t think there’s a general purpose ‘data scientist’. I think, as I’ve always said, that such a person is someone who can code and knows statistics. A data scientist is basically somebody who works at a company long enough to figure out the math around the fundamental metrics of…

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