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What the hell is “data science” anyway?!

February 19, 2021 By editor

Too much time has been squandered on trying to define data science, AI, machine learning, data analysts, data thingymajig, etc.

Who cares? I’m happy to return to “statistics” and “programming”.

We should follow the lead of United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [“hard-core pornography”], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it…

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