isn't econometrics basically just a math methods class for economy student that ...

		mlevental on April 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: If you could go back to study any CS-relat... isn't econometrics basically just a math methods class for economy student that want to do theory? just like how in the physics department it's called "theoretical physics" or something like that but it's just a Hodge podge of odes and linear algebra (and maybe calculus of variations)

A few people I know who studied it ended up working in Data Science/Machine learning.