Data Science: A Three Ring Circus or a Big Tent?
Jennifer Bryan, Hadley Wickham
TL;DR
This paper discusses the evolving nature of data science, debating whether it is a fragmented 'three-ring circus' or a unified 'big tent' field, reflecting on its history and future directions.
Contribution
It provides a critical analysis of data science's conceptual boundaries and explores its development over the past 50 years.
Findings
Data science is viewed as either fragmented or unified.
Historical perspective on data science's evolution.
Discussion on future challenges and directions.
Abstract
This is part of a collection of discussion pieces on David Donoho's paper 50 Years of Data Science, appearing in Volume 26, Issue 4 of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (2017).
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Taxonomy
TopicsMachine Learning and Data Classification · Data Mining Algorithms and Applications