[cholantesh]

>> what sort of science doesn't involve data

>There are many like theoretical computer science which do not involve data.

That computer science is a 'science' is also pretty contentious! :)

[ende]

Much of computer science is a science. The contention seems to comes from the fact that software engineers tend to come from computer science departments. Maybe more universities should create separate software engineering departments?

[cholantesh]

I don't feel qualified enough to discuss whether or not CS is truly a science, but I do think there's a strong distinction to be made between it and soft eng, for sure.

[dragonwriter]

> Much of computer science is a science.

AFAICT, its mostly a subdomain of math, not science in the empirical sense.

[denzil_correa]

Reminds of me this - https://xkcd.com/435/

[denzil_correa]

Math? A lot mathematics doesn't deal with data.

Here's on whether CS is a science

https://www.cs.mtu.edu/~john/jenning.pdf