Statistics—It’s not what you think it is.
With a career in statistics you can:
Deepak Kumar, LinkedIn Principal Data Scientist
July 09, 2015
This video features Deepak Kumar, a principal data scientist at LinkedIn. He shares his thoughts on why statistics is so important and why it’s such an interesting career.
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