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* software engineer → statistical modeling | * software engineer → statistical modeling | ||
* business analyst → algorithms and tradeoffs at scale | * business analyst → algorithms and tradeoffs at scale | ||
The Continuums | |||
* Tools vs Abstractions | |||
* Desktop vs cloud | |||
* hackers vs analysts | |||
* structures vs statistics | |||
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Revision as of 16:06, 1 May 2013
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Introduction
Context
Bill Howe venn diagram. "Danger Zone" is hacking + expertise without statistics.
Mike Driscolls 3 DS skills
- Statistics
- Data Munging
- Visualization
Dimensions
DS is not (or not quite)
- Business Intelligence
- Statistics
- Data(base) Management
- Visualization
- Machine Learning
If you're a → You need to learn
- DBA → unstructured data
- statistician → data that exceeds memory
- software engineer → statistical modeling
- business analyst → algorithms and tradeoffs at scale
The Continuums
- Tools vs Abstractions
- Desktop vs cloud
- hackers vs analysts
- structures vs statistics