Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Battle of the data science Venn Diagrams

Battle of the Data Science Venn Diagrams
by David Taylor    
Data science is a rather fuzzily defined field; some of the definitions I've heard are:
  • "Work that takes more programming skills than most statisticians have, and more statistics skills than a programmer has."
  • "Applied statistics, but in San Francisco."
  • "The field of people who decide to print 'Data Scientist' on their business cards and get a salary bump."
Personally, I've recently decided to avoid the controversy by calling myself a data spelunker. (Data miners are out of vogue anyway.)
As a field in search of a definition, it's unsurprising that you can find a lot of different attempts to define it.
As a field full of data nerds with a penchant for visualization, it's also unsurprising that a lot of them use Venn diagrams. (Fun fact: John Venn, who invented the eponymous diagrams, and his son filed a patent in 1909 for an lawn bowling machine.)... Full Text

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