Re:Foundations of Data Science [pdf]
by BigJeffeRonaldo on Saturday October 08, 2016 @09:21AM
(#12666864)
They are trying to help you get a correct intuition. If you have never approached things this way, there are almost certainly very large holes in your understanding. Not to say that everyone needs to be formal all the time, but you need to sometimes.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Foundations of Data Science [pdf]
by denzil_correa on Sunday October 09, 2016 @05:24AM
(#12670453)
> If you have never approached things this way, there are almost certainly very large holes in your understanding.
When anyone tells me that X is the ONLY way to do it, almost exclusively I have found them wrong - beyond data science. Formalism is a means of communication, not the end. You can always communicate ideas without formalism.
FYI, I am a Ph.D Computer Science and a practicing Data Scientist for many years now.