Statistics

- [Voiceover] Let's look at the relationship now…between data science and statistics.…Now, data science and statistics…are sometimes seen as distinct fields,…and that can actually cause…some confusion among people…because a lot of people talk about them…as though they're completely unrelated…and non-overlapping fields.…And so maybe one way to think about the relationship…is that since data science requires statistics,…and you can't do data science without statistics,…maybe it's just a subdomain.…The procedures that data science uses…are shared with statistics.…

If true, data science is a subset…wholly enclosed within statistics,…and you might get this kind of diagram.…But if data science were just a subset of statistics,…then all data scientists would be…trained as statisticians,…and it'd just be a specialty within the field,…but we know that's not the case.…Let's take a look at a few elements.…First, training.…Most data scientists are not trained as statisticians.…They frequently have a background in computer science,…