Comments on: Statisticians no more—now “data scientists” http://www.statsmadeeasy.net/2012/08/statisticians-no-more-now-data-scientists/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=statisticians-no-more-now-data-scientists A wry look at all things statistical and/or scientific with an engineering perspective. Mon, 27 May 2013 18:22:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Cosma Shalizi http://www.statsmadeeasy.net/2012/08/statisticians-no-more-now-data-scientists/comment-page-1/#comment-110 Cosma Shalizi Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:02:48 +0000 http://www.statsmadeeasy.net/?p=1224#comment-110 While I am not very happy with the name “data scientist”, and have said so at some length (http://bactra.org/weblog/925.html), I have certainly never said the phrase you attribute to me.

]]> By: Wayne http://www.statsmadeeasy.net/2012/08/statisticians-no-more-now-data-scientists/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Wayne Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:08:18 +0000 http://www.statsmadeeasy.net/?p=1224#comment-108 While at the QPRC 2012 one of the common topics was the title of Statistical Engineer. The relationship between a statistical engineer and a statistician was likened to the relationship between an engineer and a physicist. Statisticians develop the math/test/methods while statistical engineers pick out the methods and develop tools to implement them in the field. Maybe it is a good thing to differentiate the field of statistics by giving a name to the nature of the actual work.

Here’s a quote I use a lot, “there are liars, damned liars, and statistics, the job of the statistician is to make sure statistics are telling the truth.” I’m not sure what a data scientist does.

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