The Open Source Data Science Masters

Re:The Open Source Data Science Masters by cholantesh on Friday August 19, 2016 @02:00PM (#12321978)

>> what sort of science doesn't involve data

>There are many like theoretical computer science which do not involve data.

That computer science is a 'science' is also pretty contentious! :)

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Re:The Open Source Data Science Masters by ende on Friday August 19, 2016 @02:06PM (#12322027)

Much of computer science is a science. The contention seems to comes from the fact that software engineers tend to come from computer science departments. Maybe more universities should create separate software engineering departments?

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Re:The Open Source Data Science Masters by cholantesh on Friday August 19, 2016 @03:58PM (#12323024)

I don't feel qualified enough to discuss whether or not CS is truly a science, but I do think there's a strong distinction to be made between it and soft eng, for sure.

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Re:The Open Source Data Science Masters by dragonwriter on Friday August 19, 2016 @02:18PM (#12322147)

> Much of computer science is a science.

AFAICT, its mostly a subdomain of math, not science in the empirical sense.

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Re:The Open Source Data Science Masters by denzil_correa on Saturday August 20, 2016 @03:39AM (#12325617)

Reminds of me this - https://xkcd.com/435/

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Re:The Open Source Data Science Masters by denzil_correa on Friday August 19, 2016 @04:36PM (#12323278)

Math? A lot mathematics doesn't deal with data.

Here's on whether CS is a science

https://www.cs.mtu.edu/~john/jenning.pdf

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