On the hype around #DataScience

 Here is my latest twitter storm about the death of Data Science.. 

Enjoy!

Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire, Destruction, 1836, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

 

 

 




For the rest of the Twitter Storm... I invite you to check it out.. on Twitter !


 

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