Data Scientists and Statisticians: Can’t We All Just Get Along

2013-08-19 19:01:31 +0000

With Data Science being the latest buzzword, what, really, is the difference between data science and statistics?

 The simple answer: statisticians do inference from samples, while data scientist tabulate parameters from censuses.

- Robert Young (from the comments)

http://statistical-research.com/data-science-statistics-and-the-domain-expert