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Defining data science in 2018

Data Science and Beyond

I got my first data science job in 2012, the year Harvard Business Review announced data scientist to be the sexiest job of the 21st century. Two years later, I published a post on my then-favourite definition of data science , as the intersection between software engineering and statistics. Things have changed considerably since 2012.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly on Data

While data scientists were no longer handling Hadoop-sized workloads, they were trying to build predictive models on a different kind of “large” dataset: so-called “unstructured data.” ” There’s as much Keras, TensorFlow, and Torch today as there was Hadoop back in 2010-2012. And it was good.