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rawoke083600 on Sept 19, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is “data scientist” the new “programmer”?

Forgot who said it but it was great: a "Data scientist" is a programmer better at stats than any 'normal' programmer and better at programming than any 'normal' statistician." :P

screye on Sept 19, 2018 | [–]

This is the best short form definition of a data scientist I've heard yet.

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