data science

Popularized by DJ Patil and Jeff Hammerbacher, 2000s.

data science

1. (sciences) An interdisciplinary field about scientific methods, processes and systems to extract knowledge or insights from data.

   Hypernym: science

   • 2011, DJ Patil, Building Data Science Teams, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN:

     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.

• data scientist

• data management, data modeling, data processing, data cleaning

• analytics
• data journalism
• deep learning
• knowledge management
• machine learning

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