data scientist

[dey-tuh sahy-uhn-tist, dat-uh]

noun

Digital Technology.

1. a person with expertise in statistics, computer programming, and machine learning who develops models and processes for retrieving valuable information from large data sets.

Word History and Origins

Origin of data scientist¹

First recorded in 2005–10

Example Sentences

The 31-year-old - who is no data scientist, rather a tailor - previously launched Savile Row's first female tailors, making made-to-measure garments for a range of women.

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Dina Stretiner, a 34-year-old data scientist in Denver, still remembers stepping into a Whole Foods for the first time in 2013 and witnessing its “restaurant-quality” prepared-foods section, with minestrone soup and falafel that blew her away.

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"It's a kind of Google for DNA," explains Professor Gunnar Rätsch, a data scientist in ETH Zurich's Department of Computer Science.

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“I am someone who separates business and personal matters,” said Chen, a 43-year-old data scientist and mother of three from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

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Illinois currently sends 14 Democrats and three Republicans to the House, but as data scientist Zachary Donnini has shown, unpacking the state’s five majority-minority districts could wipe out its three GOP representatives.

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