GoogleKing Kai

Data scientist = statistician rebranded?

I feel like statistician sounds boring / archaic so people rebranded it to data science to sound sexier and get more people interested. Thoughts?

Oracle Ojk3Yp Jun 10, 2018

Duh

Credit Karma Hftfdds Jun 10, 2018

More like business analytics

Northrop Grumman dea7th Jun 10, 2018

Pretty much. Data science maybe has a more computational approach.

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o0 Jun 10, 2018

Sometimes people sell ETL under DS brand.

Google v0 Jun 10, 2018

Excel++

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iamsomeone Jun 10, 2018

Funny, I just recently stumbled upon a Quora thread about this https://www.quora.com/Is-Machine-Learning-just-glorified-statistics

Google Bugs🐰 Feb 2

Absolutely not, Data Scientist is a made up term anyone can use