Data Science, Machine Learning, and Statistics: what is in a name?

Win-Vector Blog 2013-04-22

Summary:

A fair complaint when seeing yet another “data science” article is to say: “this is just medical statistics” or “this is already part of bioinformatics.” We certainly label many articles as “data science” on this blog. Probably the complaint is slightly cleaner if phrased as “this is already known statistics.” But the essence of the [...]

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Authors:

John Mount

Date tagged:

04/22/2013, 11:37

Date published:

04/19/2013, 13:48