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BUSINESS SCIENCE
Data Science is Dead. Long Live Business Science!
The 5 lessons anyone could learn from the humble salmon
Data is an unreliable friend, and hardly anything about it is actually scientific. So what, Data Science?
Over the past 5 years, I have interviewed more than 1,000 candidate data scientists for an apparently highly coveted set of jobs at Evo Pricing. In the process I have learned that the media are portraying a fundamental lie about this profession: throwing data at off-the-shelf algorithms is really not the point.
A fundamental rethink would be appropriate, and it is likely overdue.
70 years’ history in 2 paragraphs and 1 picture
At its heart, data science is a noble name for a broad set of number crunching activities that were mostly invented long ago, but recently received a new lease of life from being applied with greatly enhanced technical devices: more data, more processing power, more reasonable outcomes at a cheaper price.
