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The Data Is Dark And Full Of Terrors: Advice for the Data Scientist Noob

The Data Is Dark And Full Of Terrors: Advice for the Data Scientist Noob

Somebody asked me what the life of a data scientist is like. I’ve never liked the term, but I like the development in the IT business that…

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Michael David Cobb Bowen
Nov 18, 2017
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Somebody asked me what the life of a data scientist is like. I’ve never liked the term, but I like the development in the IT business that made the term necessary. So here’s my end all, be all answer.

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 …

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