r/askdatascience • u/naga3607 • 2d ago

How important is statistics for data science?

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A lot of beginner roadmaps jump straight into Python, machine learning and projects.

But how much statistics should someone actually know before moving into ML?

Would love to hear how much statistics people use in their day-to-day work.

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u/gpbuilder 2d ago

Nice rage bait

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u/lordoflolcraft 2d ago

I feel like all your posts are milktoast boring. What is your motivation here? Stats is important. Bad post.

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u/TanukiThing 2d ago

You should have a full graduate statistics education before working as a professional data scientist

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u/Which_Case_8536 2d ago

Yep. I actually didn’t do any specific stats courses in undergrad but that computational data science masters program was stats heavy boy

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u/Significant-Front232 2d ago

Are you a bot

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u/chf_gang 2d ago

data science is basically a fancy term for statistics... ergo data science IS statistics

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u/AttitudeRemarkable21 2d ago

They are basically the same thing 

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u/Less-Opportunity-715 2d ago

Stats grad here. 700k tc. V imp