The Hard Part of Data Science

Even before you get to the math!

Frank Neugebauer
Python in Plain English
4 min readOct 21, 2021

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Data science is hard, but not because any single concept is especially hard (noting that some are). The hard part is keeping the basics straight because:

  • Synonym soup
  • Obvious subtlety
  • No clear answers
  • A million situations

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