On: The origin story of data science

[tchalla]

> This provided him with the subject matter for his famous paper Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures (2001). Like Chambers, he divided statistics into two groups: The data modeling culture (Chambers’s lesser statistics) and the algorithmic modeling culture (Chambers’s greater statistics). He took it one step further, stating that 98% of statisticians were from the former, while only 2% were from the latter.

This paper provides an important distinction for the "Machine Learning is just statistics" remark.

[disgruntledphd2 → tchalla]

So, the tools of machine learning are the tools of statistics. The uses to which those tools are put are quite different.

[joker3 → tchalla]

It describes why machine learning was regarded as separate from statistics twenty years ago. The world has moved on.