data scientist

English

Noun

data scientist (plural data scientists)

1. (job, sciences) A scientist involved in data science.

   Hypernym: scientist

   • 2012 October, Thomas H. Davenport, D.J. Patil, “Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century”, in Harvard Business Review‎^[1]:

     Goldman is a good example of a new key player in organizations: the “data scientist.” It’s a high-ranking professional with the training and curiosity to make discoveries in the world of big data. The title has been around for only a few years. (It was coined in 2008 by one of us, D.J. Patil, and Jeff Hammerbacher, then the respective leads of data and analytics efforts at LinkedIn and Facebook.) But thousands of data scientists are already working at both start-ups and well-established companies.

   • 2013, Bill Schmarzo, Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 41:

     The data scientist is responsible for mining the organization's data—structured and unstructured data that is both internal and external of the organization—to uncover new insights about the business. Data scientists are data hoarders, seeking […]

Derived terms

• data-scientist

Related terms

• data science

Translations

a scientist involved in data science

• French: scientifique de données m or f
• German: Datenwissenschaftler m, Datenwissenschaftlerin f
• Hungarian: adattudós
• Japanese: データサイエンティスト
• Russian: дата-сайентист (ru) m (data-sajentist)