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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by munchbunny on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @07:17PM (#20170341)
It's not symmetrical like that. Journalists report on data based phenomena all the time, so understanding statistics is a fairly useful skill.

Programmers don't typically have to do journalism. They do have to write, but writing =/= journalism. If we're talking about writing classes for programmers, personally I don't think there's anything special about the programmer use case, as opposed to "writing in professional contexts" in general.

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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by bgravinz on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @09:03PM (#20170977)
That seems like more of an exercise in framing.

If you currently work at the NYT as a data-science researcher, doing the job that journalists without data-science experience can’t do, and you see your job imperilled by this, you’ll want to do exactly what these journalists are doing, but in reverse: Expanding their role to something they didn’t previously do in order to stay competitive in the job market.

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