data-phobe

noun

data-phobe

noun

Etymology From data + -phobe.

1

One who is data phobic.

  • At this point, the hard-core "data-phobes" are probably muttering, "These guys can't fool me. There's math involved in statistics."1984, John Waite Bowers, John A. Courtright, Communication research methods, page 133:
  • Authors may even ignore these features because they did not notice them, may have run out of time, may be data-phobes themselves, or may not be very good analysts (that's possible!).1992, Erickson, Understanding Data, →ISBN, pages 1–2:
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  • As a data scientist, you still need to be mindful to what is going on around you – like when the CEO who loves data is replaced with a data-phobe.2018, Daniel A. McGrath, Quantitative Analysis for System Applications, →ISBN:

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