Thanks for this, but is there any way I can download the spreadsheet.
Change 'htmlview' to 'view' in the URL to get the full docs UI and then 'File -> Download as'.
Stanford Degrees in Statistics
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Re: Stanford Degrees in Statistics
#32What do the units specified against each course signify? They do not seem to map to the syllabus.
https://statistics.stanford.edu/academics/ms-statistics
> The Department requires that the student take 45 units of work from offerings in the Department of Statistics or from authorized courses in other departments. Of these 45 units, eight statistics courses from the list of required courses must be taken for a letter grade.
Re: Stanford Degrees in Statistics
#33And yet some people still refer to modern day statisticians as "not data scientists"
Re: Stanford Degrees in Statistics
#34I'm still amused/saddened by how little theoretical work you need to do at Stanford to get a statistics BS (they call it Mathematical & Computational Science). I get it: you don't need a rigorous foundation of math to be useful as a workaday "data scientist". That said, university is probably the last time you get to indulge/immerse yourself in deep, rigorous, mathematical thinking. Not requiring students to take the…
I'm curious, what led you to marketing (as opposed to some kind of engineering) after studying maths?
Re: Stanford Degrees in Statistics
#35I'm still amused/saddened by how little theoretical work you need to do at Stanford to get a statistics BS (they call it Mathematical & Computational Science). I get it: you don't need a rigorous foundation of math to be useful as a workaday "data scientist". That said, university is probably the last time you get to indulge/immerse yourself in deep, rigorous, mathematical thinking. Not requiring students to take the…
Have you tried/studied Graph Theory?
That's one of the most difficult math classes in my life.
I even wonder if it belongs to math...
Re: Stanford Degrees in Statistics
#36I'm still amused/saddened by how little theoretical work you need to do at Stanford to get a statistics BS (they call it Mathematical & Computational Science). I get it: you don't need a rigorous foundation of math to be useful as a workaday "data scientist". That said, university is probably the last time you get to indulge/immerse yourself in deep, rigorous, mathematical thinking. Not requiring students to take the…
Have you tried/studied Graph Theory? That's one of the most difficult math classes in my life. I even wonder if it belongs to math...
Re: Stanford Degrees in Statistics
#37I'm still amused/saddened by how little theoretical work you need to do at Stanford to get a statistics BS (they call it Mathematical & Computational Science). I get it: you don't need a rigorous foundation of math to be useful as a workaday "data scientist". That said, university is probably the last time you get to indulge/immerse yourself in deep, rigorous, mathematical thinking. Not requiring students to take the…
Have you tried/studied Graph Theory? That's one of the most difficult math classes in my life. I even wonder if it belongs to math...
Curious what you would consider as Math instead.
Re: Stanford Degrees in Statistics
#38What do the units specified against each course signify? They do not seem to map to the syllabus.
https://statistics.stanford.edu/academics/ms-statistics > The Department requires that the student take 45 units of work from offerings in the Department of Statistics or from authorized courses in other departments. Of these 45 units, eight statistics courses from the list of required courses must be taken for a letter grade.
Thanks for the input!
Re: Stanford Degrees in Statistics
#39I'm still amused/saddened by how little theoretical work you need to do at Stanford to get a statistics BS (they call it Mathematical & Computational Science). I get it: you don't need a rigorous foundation of math to be useful as a workaday "data scientist". That said, university is probably the last time you get to indulge/immerse yourself in deep, rigorous, mathematical thinking. Not requiring students to take the…
I'm curious, what led you to marketing (as opposed to some kind of engineering) after studying maths?
Once I realized that I was not going to be that good at math (I bailed on a Ph.D program a few months before I was supposed to start), I went into quant finance to make money. I was okay at it, but not great. From there, I somehow ended up in the software world (mostly, I'd say, because I learned to program as a quant trader, certainly not through my coursework).
I ended up in marketing by chance: I am the 1st employee at the current startup and naturally evolved into that role because I am technical but not an engineer and like to write/say stuff.
Marketing, especially product marketing, is one of the most under-rated and under-recognized role in the startup world, but in many B2B businesses, it's just as important (or so I'd like to believe) as engineering and sales.
Re: Stanford Degrees in Statistics
#40I'm still amused/saddened by how little theoretical work you need to do at Stanford to get a statistics BS (they call it Mathematical & Computational Science). I get it: you don't need a rigorous foundation of math to be useful as a workaday "data scientist". That said, university is probably the last time you get to indulge/immerse yourself in deep, rigorous, mathematical thinking. Not requiring students to take the…
Have you tried/studied Graph Theory? That's one of the most difficult math classes in my life. I even wonder if it belongs to math...
I did. As a matter of fact, I was this close to going to Rutgers to study combinatorics and graph theory for a Ph.D.