Any Data analysts/scientists out there

[aussielong]

In the data science/statistical learning arena, for the sake of argument there are 2 approaches: the statistical and what statisticians refer to (usually wrongly) as the CS approach: the latter consisting of algorithms that produce results like clustering but are very ad-hoc: a good example is k-means.*
Statos are suspicious of the latter, CS people say "if it works

Why did the statistician become a statistician? He found accountancy too exciting.

[sasguru]

Why did the statistician become a statistician? He found accountancy too exciting.

Thanks for showing the depth of your misunderstanding.
Stats is epistemological and hence touches on philosophy, accountancy is merely counting.
Keep digging though, you make me laugh.

[DimPrawn]

What's a Data Scientist?

Ask Bob.

What exactly do data scientists do? - Lifestyle - DNA

Plenty cheapness. Much spreadsheets.

[DimPrawn]

And what did Bob find?

Bhattacharji works as a data scientist with HackerRank, a social platform for coders. But he has also put his skills to good use on another task — he managed to scrape the 2012 and 2013 exam results of almost a million students from the two central boards in India, the CBSE and ICSE.

Through this experiment, he found something unusual — the scoring patterns were irregular, which meant that score manipulation and inflation were rampant in these boards.

[sasguru]

And what did Bob find?

I think what that article shows is what I have long suspected: Bob, on average, isn't very good at all, hence all the cheating.
Of course in a population of 1 billion, there are bound to be some very good people, simply by chance, but in general Bob's education, creativity and ability to do the job is poor.
Those of you who have been bobbed should consider that is because you're poor too.

[aussielong]

Thanks for showing the depth of your misunderstanding.
Stats is epistemological and hence touches on philosophy, accountancy is merely counting.
Keep digging though, you make me laugh.

Stats is for those that couldn't cut it at pure maths.

Quant beats stato. Certainly in terms of pay, prestige, employability, etc. Oh but hang on, Data Science is the next big thing, right? Vauxhall conference loser thinks he's premiership.

[sasguru]

Stats is for those that couldn't cut it at pure maths.

Quant beats stato. Certainly in terms of pay, prestige, employability, etc. Oh but hang on, Data Science is the next big thing, right? Vauxhall conference loser thinks he's premiership.

You come across as a real loser. Keep furiously if you think it helps.
I've got some work to do.

[eek]

You come across as a real loser. Keep furiously if you think it helps.
I've got some work to do.

While I agree with your first statement, your continual posting throws your second statement into doubt.

[d000hg]

Another potentially interesting thread ruined. Keep it in your pants Sas, plenty of other threads better suited to I'll see you there!

[DimPrawn]

Yes it's an interesting area (to me anyway).

This blog post describes in detail what you need to know and do to call yourself a data scientist.

No, Really, Some of My Best Friends Are Data Scientists