:mega: :mega: Should we create a channel for “data...
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orangy
04/07/2017, 10:34 AM
📣 📣 Should we create a channel for “data science”, “big data”? If you are interested please react with 🔬
If you do, please suggest a name which is clear and not too generic.
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masted
04/07/2017, 10:49 AM#datalogy
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orangy
04/07/2017, 10:52 AM
Nice idea, but it’s really hard to just guess it
orangy
04/07/2017, 10:53 AM
I’m not very familiar with the domain, so I’m asking if it should be #datascience or #bigdata or something else
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masted
04/07/2017, 11:16 AMwell, #datascience is a general name of field of science, and #bigdata is a name for a particular archetype in a nowadays industry, both terms are wide, broad and cluttered, but #datascience have a potential boundaries and hierarchy inside, where #bigdata is all about buzz by its nature 🙂
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elizarov
04/07/2017, 11:26 AM#datascience is more general. Most data people work with using the likes of R and Python is not big, but analyzing it is still just a important and the analysis you’d do in Hadoop and Spark
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orangy
04/07/2017, 12:04 PM
You are welcome to #datascience
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cedric
04/07/2017, 1:57 PM@orangy In my experience, it's better to not create a specific channel until the general channel gets overwhelmed with this specific topic, otherwise you'll create a dead channel