You know who was doing data scientist style work before “data scientists?” Basically *anyone* working with data. Anyone.
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@trentmkays I don't think this is quite true--methods I see in 'data science' are recent vintage. But buzz word 'data science': totally1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@aspasia_project CMC researchers were doing similar stuff 30+ years ago. Little that’s new; only difference is scale.
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@trentmkays some stuff's old for sure! but--CART? Ensembles? Pretty new, and even quantitative non-stat/cs fields are just picking it up1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@trentmkays SVM and NN algorithms apparently existed in the 40s-60s but good luck finding a non-specialist who knew about them before 1990
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