On moving from statistics to machine learning, the final stage of grief (2019)

Re:On moving from statistics to machine learning, the final ... by kelvin0 on Friday July 03, 2020 @09:55AM (#23724043)

It seems like the 'scientist' part of 'Data scientist' might cause this sort of misunderstanding.

There's a lot more 'engineering' and fiddling going on than any type of 'science-y' stuff it seems.

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Re:On moving from statistics to machine learning, the final ... by NPMaxwell on Friday July 03, 2020 @12:13PM (#23725207)

At one point, the word "scientist" in "data scientist" was used to distinguish between people who took the time to develop domain expertise from statistical consultants who applied standard methodologies without reference to what the data was or where it came from.

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Re:On moving from statistics to machine learning, the final ... by kgwgk on Friday July 03, 2020 @10:27AM (#23724347)

'science-y' stuff usually doesn't have 'science' in the name.

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