Statistician: person using data in [scientifically] rigorous ways. Data Scientist: person writings blog posts, giving talks ... about data.
4
16
9
@eddelbuettel my cynical definition: a data scientist is a statistician who is useful ;)
2
6
5
Replying to @hadleywickham
@hadleywickham Well, doh, it's the inverse: a statistician is a data scientist who is useful ;-)

Oct 31, 2012 · 9:54 PM UTC

1
2
1
Replying to @eddelbuettel
@eddelbuettel @hadleywickham a statistician is a data scientist who does not know he is a data scientist because he never reads twitter
1
3
2