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Oct 4, 2019 at 2:32 comment added user44143 Yes, but searching for “probability theorist” + “data science” turns up: 1) Cosma Shalizi, a Carnegie-Mellon statistician, saying his advisor was a probability theorist; 2) Scott Sheffield, an MIT probability theorist, at his courtesy appointment in the data science program that he does not bother to mention on his home page; 3) Robert Wolpert, a data scientist whose career was set by considering but not taking a class from a noted probability theorist; and 4+) lists with disjoint sublists of data scientists and probability theorists. So that connection too is mostly historical.
Oct 3, 2019 at 22:26 comment added Juan Sebastian Lozano @MattF While you might be right, I also rarely hear the word "probabilist" and hear "probability theorist" much more.
Oct 3, 2019 at 22:23 comment added usul @MattF. I agree getting a probabilist in particular for such a position is a stretch.
Oct 3, 2019 at 21:05 comment added user44143 This is too rosy: a hire in data science is unlikely to be or to call themselves a probabilist. The first search page of google.com/… turns up one "amateur probabilist", two references to Leo Breiman who died in 2005, and several inapt uses of the word "probabilist".
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