Stanford, Harvard data science no more
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Re: Stanford, Harvard data science no more
#2I think it makes sense for them to emphasize a strong understanding of the fundamentals. It will help those students who later want to go into data science as well.
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#3I think it makes sense for them to emphasize a strong understanding of the fundamentals. It will help those students who later want to go into data science as well.
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#5While I’ve led a data science team, I’ve never taken a data science course — so I’m not sure what it teaches. But i do feel pretty confident in saying that I think math does lose its usefulness around after trig. Not to say there aren’t useful aspects, but the curriculum is so inefficient. And maybe it’s because everyone needs some part of it, but that part is different for each person.
Math is interesting in that the early foundation is so useful, but the use drops off quickly. While I feel like other areas often become more useful as I learn more. Possibly because I haven’t spent 15 years on that topic like I had math.
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#6Note that this is the recommendations for applying for Undergrad, not their classes or program offerings.
Those two institutions are recommending more foundational (calculus) rather than applied courses (data science).
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#7Geometry isn't really any more "fundamental" than statistics (for concreteness, let's say the geometry covered by the SAT and statistics as covered by the AP Statistics exam). Maybe they are using it as a proxy for formal proofs? A proof-based course in probability would actually be a lot more fundamental than either geometry or statistics, I think.
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#8Familiarity with pandas and familiarity with taking an integral aren’t even close to the same thing. I don’t think it ever made sense to group them together.
Re: Stanford, Harvard data science no more
#9Geometry isn't really any more "fundamental" than statistics (for concreteness, let's say the geometry covered by the SAT and statistics as covered by the AP Statistics exam). Maybe they are using it as a proxy for formal proofs? A proof-based course in probability would actually be a lot more fundamental than either geometry or statistics, I think.
I don’t like the whole layer cake of math that we do. Still, in a traditional geometry course you get a lot of pieces that help with trig and calculus, and an exposure to at least informal proofs.
A whole lot of stuff in AP Stats is a relatively dead end for many people, but geometry and geometric reasoning is necessary for all kinds of engineering-ish math.
Re: Stanford, Harvard data science no more
#10Note that this is the recommendations for applying for Undergrad, not their classes or program offerings. Those two institutions are recommending more foundational (calculus) rather than applied courses (data science).
They continue to recommend statistics. They removed data science from a sentence that also included calculus and statistics.