What Is a Data Scientist?: Michael Rappa, North Carolina State University

NC State's Michael Rappa on What is a Data Scientist?: “Any time you put ‘science’ in a label, science invokes certain very real concepts within it, like the notion of public knowledge and peer review and so forth,” Rappa says. “And it’s safe to say that the ‘data scientist’ in places like Silicon Valley aren’t publishing their algorithms and putting them out to peer review scrutiny and making it...