ABSTRACT
The National Academies “Data Science for Undergraduates” consensus report noted that the vital new field of data science spans a wide range of capacities that they described as “data acumen.” Michael I. Jordan from the University of California, Berkeley has described data science as a fine-grained blend of intellectual traditions from statistics and computer science: Computer science is more than just programming; it is the creation of appropriate abstractions to express computational structures and the development of algorithms that operate on those abstractions. The contributions made by the next generation of baseball analysts will require coding ability. The creativity and domain knowledge that fueled the work of Allan Roth and Bill James remain necessary traits for success, but they are no longer sufficient.
