data science

English

Etymology

Popularized by DJ Patil and Jeff Hammerbacher, 2000s.

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• data scientist

Related terms

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

Translations

field

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 數據科學／数据科学 (shùjù kēxué)

• Finnish: datatiede
• French: science des données (fr) f
• German: Datenwissenschaft f
• Italian: scienza dei dati f
• Japanese: データ科学, データサイエンス
• Polish: danologia f
• Portuguese: ciência de dados f
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: ciencia de datos f

See also

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

Further reading

• data science on Wikipedia.Wikipedia