Re:A Student's Guide to Preparing for Data Science Interviews
by denzil_correa on Friday July 21, 2017 @04:35PM
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The thing is : Data Science requires ... "scientific" rigor and thought process. A lot of people who hire often forget that science is integral to data science: it's right there in the name.
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Re:A Student's Guide to Preparing for Data Science Interviews
by rogocopH on Friday July 21, 2017 @06:18PM
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I think this was posted earlier. But some companies really just want a statistician.
Very few companies are actually using their data scientists as scientists. From my experience.Except for when I worked at a large hospital. We had a research board, and had to be certified to study Humans CITI. But beyond that..
Re:A Student's Guide to Preparing for Data Science Interviews
by gaius on Sunday July 23, 2017 @05:39AM
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But some companies really just want a statistician
In what way is what statisticians do not "scientific"? Setting up and rejecting (or not) the null hypothesis is the very definition of the scientific process...