Simply Statistics A statistics blog by Rafa Irizarry, Roger Peng, and Jeff Leek

Defining data science

Rebranding of statistics as a field seems to be a popular topic these days and “data science” is one of the potential rebranding options. This article over at Revolutions is a nice summary of where the term comes from and what it means. This quote seems pretty accurate:

My own take is that Data Science is a valuable rebranding of computer science and applied statistics skills.