The Two Cultures of Programming | Joshua Ballanco | JuliaCon 2016

[@JethroYSCao]

Guns, Germs and Steel was a very scientifically dubious book.

[@tiitulitii]

Data analysis is a wrong term for what the modern data analysts are doing unless they are scientists.

[@thoyo]

Can you please explain further why you say that?

[@slothochdonut3099]

agree

[@MikeJones-su3mm]

@@thoyo bi

[@jacobflores8666]

@@thoyo Idk if you already got your answer, but they probably were alluding to the fact that modern data analysts do a lot of janitorial work when it comes to data sets. Cleaning up data and making it to where you can even perform analysis on it is a job in and of itself. Something interesting, if you're interested in mathematics, there's a field of applied mathematics called "topological data analysis" which is more concerned with the shape of data and performing analysis on large datasets(especially in higher dimensions) with a general-use mapper algorithm rather than fitting models to datasets that have already been cleaned.

[@thoyo]

@@jacobflores8666 thanks Jacob!

[@johannesjoseph823]

Many points to disagree