>>11529075what are fields? the whole thing is a semantic argument. People used to not draw strong distinctions between philosophy, physics, chemistry, math etc yet now these get siloed off.
Data science strikes me as taking a radical stand on quantitative modelling for operational pragmatism and anti-platonism. Not terribly different than your garden variety Bayesian nonparametrician, but even less wedded to theoretical assumptions. I can see why for some domains like computer vision this is very effective.
