
Ep. #9, The Argument for Less Specialization with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal Labs
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Is There a Misconception About Data and Product Analytics?
I was referring to one of his tweets. He had this definition of a data scientist as a person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician. So that's a very good additional backstory. And I mean, you mentioned that your background is actually in physics. It's not in computer science and math. And that's the same background as I have, like I have mathematics. And the philosophy background actually as well.So maybe that's like a good combination. Let's pivot the show. Why don't we start with what are people's biggest misconceptions about how data and product analytics works? You know, simple things are usually far more impact
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