Published February 19, 2024 | Version v1
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What is data science? A closer look at science's latest priority dispute

  • 1. ROR icon George Mason University

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Is data science a new and exciting set of skills, necessary for analyzing 21st century data? Or is it (as some have claimed) a rebranding of statistics, which has carefully developed time-honored methods for data analysis over the past century? Two popular data science algorithms — naïve Bayes and eigen centrality — are used to examine the difference between data scientists, statisticians, and other occupations. Published online at https://realworlddatascience.net/ideas/posts/2024/02/19/what-is-data-science.html

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