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Originally posted by BigJohn View PostThis is why many of us don’t want to be in permanent positions with titles and appraisals. Who’s to say that a candidate with degree level education 15 years of experience of R + Python, ML and other related fields isn’t in fact a better candidate than one with at least a MSc, preferable PhD you mentionI'm alright JackComment
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Originally posted by BlasterBates View PostA Data Scientist is an expert in statistical methods, not in the tools you use to implement those methods.Comment
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Originally posted by jamesbrown View PostBoth, actually. R was built by (academic) scientists for scientists. The Core Team is stuffed with academics. Most of the contributed packages in CRAN are contributed by scientists, not software engineers. But, yeah, data scientists are not software engineers, as you can probably tell from using R
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Originally posted by BlasterBates View PostR is now widespread and is used by many Quants programmers and Software Engineers who are not themselves Data scientists, but who are Engineers with familiarity of statistical methods.
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Originally posted by AndrewK View PostBut that would the same for any job. As exampe if you write/update XML files and call yourself backend developerComment
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Originally posted by BigJohn View PostThis is why many of us don’t want to be in permanent positions with titles and appraisals. Who’s to say that a candidate with degree level education 15 years of experience of R + Python, ML and other related fields isn’t in fact a better candidate than one with at least a MSc, preferable PhD you mentionComment
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Originally posted by jamesbrown View PostYes, it is also used by people that aren’t data scientistsThe greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't existComment
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Originally posted by AndrewK View PostThat as any data scientist would tell you - correlation does not imply causation.
And data science is not about correlation, which is important but only as the first step in any analysis.
Just take a look at how many real data scientist Amazon and Google have.Comment
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Originally posted by CheeseSlice View PostIt was a joke. Data scientists don't really do humour I take it?Comment
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