Conway: Human elements of data science are harder to teach than math
Drew Conway · Panel Discussion // Data Driven #16 // May 2013 · Dec 5, 2013 · at 4:30
During a panel discussion at Data Driven NYC, Drew Conway contrasts the difficulty of acquiring social domain intuition with technical mathematics and CS skills.
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“I think it's much harder to learn and be trained on the human aspect than it is to be trained on the math and the computer science.”
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