No ‘Science’ in Data Science?

Are we analyzing data, or engineering reality?

Introduction

No worries, I didn’t choose this title to moan about how data science is not ‘true science’ (whatever that may mean). Rather, I hope to provide some different views of what it means to be a data scientist, which I hope will help in thinking how to take different perspectives when analyzing a problem. Originally, I was planning to call this essay “What I …

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