Dear Colleagues,
I have written a short essay about changing the name of the field of
statistics to "data science". The essay discusses significant advantages of
changing the name and suggests that the disadvantages are minimal.
The essay is at http://matstat.com/Macnaughton2017a.pdf
Best regards,
Donald B. Macnaughton
MatStat Research Consulting
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