Modern Data Practice and the SQL Tradition
I might be under-informed but &quot;data science&quot; seems to involve a lot of vague BS. Computing has always centered on data.<p>&quot;Data practitioners&quot;, &quot;data practice&quot;, &quot;data management&quot; just seems like weird rebranding of stuff that businesses have been doing since the 1960s. Partly what the article seems to be relating regarding SQL.<p>What is &quot;data science&quot; besides computing, data storage of some sort, and analyzing the data? Because it&#x27;s &quot;BIG&quot; now? Because now we &quot;extract knowledge and insights&quot; from data, since apparently giant databases were amassed for no reason in the past? Because now we &quot;combine multidisciplinary fields like statistics&quot;, since apparently nobody had thought to run statistics on their data before? Because &quot;AI&quot;?