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Re:Data Science in Context – Peter Norvig's New Book by urthor on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @04:48AM (#31501986)
It's a book for data scientists.

Data scientists are not software engineers.

They analyze data, they don't produce applications.

Not everything in the world is written for the benefit of software engineers.

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Re:Data Science in Context – Peter Norvig's New Book by antipaul on Friday May 27, 2022 @01:58AM (#31526437)
I agree with you - mostly.

But in the book, computation is one of the three braids comprising data science. And they include software engineering in computation.

See book sections 1.2, 1.2.4, 2.1.3 etc

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What I am trying to untie is, should data engineering be distinguished from data science, or not?

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Re:Data Science in Context – Peter Norvig's New Book by robertlagrant on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @05:42AM (#31502315)
Previous poster didn't mention software engineers.
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Re:Data Science in Context – Peter Norvig's New Book by PeekPoke on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @07:02AM (#31502774)
programmers != software engineers?
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Re:Data Science in Context – Peter Norvig's New Book by saturnaga on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @07:15AM (#31502867)
Yea I thought that was common knowledge.
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Re:Data Science in Context – Peter Norvig's New Book by feoren on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:57AM (#31506356)
If you're privy to the top-secret distinction between the two that nobody else knows, please share it.
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Re:Data Science in Context – Peter Norvig's New Book by wahnfrieden on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @07:44AM (#31503134)
same shit
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Re:Data Science in Context – Peter Norvig's New Book by wrp on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @06:37AM (#31502602)
While data science is not principally about programming, I think that having Norvig as one of the authors will lead to false expectations of the book unless the title is made more informative.
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