Timeline for Is data science mathematically interesting?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
6 events
when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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". | |
S Oct 3, 2019 at 19:38 | history | answered | usul | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
S Oct 3, 2019 at 19:38 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by usul |