data science
nounEtymology Popularized by DJ Patil and Jeff Hammerbacher, 2000s.
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Sciences An interdisciplinary field about scientific methods, processes and systems to extract knowledge or insights from data.
- Starting in 2008, Jeff Hammerbacher (@hackingdata) and I sat down to share our experiences building the data and analytics groups at Facebook and LinkedIn. In many ways, that meeting was the start of data science as a distinct professional specialization (see What Makes a Data Scientist? for the story on how we came up with the title “Data Scientist”). Since then, data science has taken on a life of its own.2011, DJ Patil, Building Data Science Teams, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN:
- Derived terms
- data scientist
- Related terms
- data management, data modeling, data processing, data cleaning, analytics, data journalism, deep learning, knowledge management, machine learning