Data science will always require specialized professionals with strong statistics backgrounds
Mike Abbott · Mike Abbott, KPCB // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Oct 16, 2014 · at 12:10
Mike Abbott, Partner at Kleiner Perkins, shares his perspective on whether data science will be fully democratized across enterprise roles.
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“I think there's always going to be a need for someone who has a background in statistics and can understand how to use tools to understand what are the questions that should be asked, how to do the feature engineering, to understand your business, whether it be in financial services or in healthcare or whatnot.”
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