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Statistics that moved to California and got a better wardrobe.

means The practice of extracting useful knowledge and predictions from data using statistics, computation, and domain expertise.

from "Data" traces to Latin dare, "to give" — the things given, the raw facts. "Science" comes from Latin scientia, "knowledge." The phrase itself has floated around statistics circles since the mid-20th century, but it only caught fire in the 2000s and 2010s, when cheap storage, bigger computers, and the internet's firehose of information turned old-fashioned statistical analysis into something that needed a new name — and a job title to match.

core skill
Googling the error message correctly
job split
80% cleaning data, 20% bragging about models
dirty secret
excel still runs half the industry
buzzword cousin
AI is just data science in a trench coat
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