Seems he does a lot of this data policing stuff. Neat.
The funny thing is that a lot of people go around saying "yeah, engineers go around thinking they can just walk into field X and study it without context". Yup. They do, and they can.
Another article https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/19/mathematics-...
I can think of plenty of times CS has benefitted from psychology too, or is reinventing the wheel.
I have a degree in Anthropology and transitioned into UX Research. 90%+ of what you do is observation in both fields. Most of the engineers and math people I've met are horrendously bad at observing behavior.
In some fields, its just a different set of skills engineers are not capable of applying very well.
That's sorta the point of a degree in the sciences rather than going to a vocational school, right?
It's amusing that people find it arrogant. It is that they're showing a level of competence we're all claiming and maybe only pretending to have? Is it "swim in your own lane" union-style isolation? Is it sneering at nerds for not having the good sense to shut it? Is it inflated egos that still think the things they learned in undergrad were hard?