Should data scientists be called "data artists?" That is what someone contend, as I discuss in
What is a 'data scientist'?
Ultimately, working
with Big Data effectively calls for using both the creative and methodical
parts of the brain. In that way, it is, indeed, a science as Einstein described it: “The mere formulation of a problem is far
more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical
or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard
old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real
advances in science.”
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