Data Science vs Statistics

Despite reading four articles that disagree with this opinion, I still think a data scientist is a statistician that has the ability to code. In other words, I think all data scientists are statistician, but not all statistician are data scientists. You can’t divorce data science from statistics. Data science’s foundation is statistics and data science would not exist, if not for statistics. Like I wouldn’t say that an epidemiologists, bookmakers, or statistics teachers aren’t statistician just because that’s not what they put into their job searches. It could be that my definition of statistician is more generous than what the authors of these articles have in their mind.

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