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Re:A Student's Guide to Preparing for Data Science Interviews by rogocopH on Friday July 21, 2017 @06:18PM (#14824123)
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..

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Re:A Student's Guide to Preparing for Data Science Interviews by gaius on Sunday July 23, 2017 @05:39AM (#14831547)
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...

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