The explosive growth of Big Data enables many data-driven methods such as deep learning which are not based on classical statistics. Will Big Data and Data Science make Statistics less, or more important? Please vote
The explosive growth of Big Data enables many data-driven methods such as deep learning which are not based on classical statistics. The word "statistics", for example, is not even mentioned in Wikipedia article on
Deep learning.
New KDnuggets Poll focuses on the relationship between
Big Data and Statistics.
This poll was motivated by a recent debate on whether
Data Science is The End of Statistics?
See also a thoughtful comment by
Stephen McDaniel on Data Science vs Statistics.
This poll is now closed - here are the results of KDnuggets Poll:
Impact of Big Data and Machine Learning on Statistics.
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