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Here's the source for the paraphrased quote: https://twitter.com/josh_wills/status/198093512149958656

"Data Scientist (n.): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician."

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A more cynical definition would add "... and who is worse at statistics than any statistician and worse at software engineering than any software engineer." ;)

I don't think you have to be very cynical to take that view.

I'm a data scientist, and I'll readily admit that your definition describes me well.

As a person who falls mostly into this camp I laughed at this since there is a grain of truth to it in my experience. There's also a certain scrappy pragmatism to being in this kind of role. Statisticians and software engineers tend to forget their technical ability is not innately valuable.

That's the one I was looking for. Thanks!

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