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

"It is possible to do much, much better," said Tori Olphin, a former police officer and data scientist who worked with Thames Valley Police to analyse their Dash performance and who came up with an alternative tool, using a much wider collection of police data.

From BBC

Budding data scientist Louis decides to canvas the neighborhood to meet all the dogs and suss out exactly how many dogs constitute “too many.”

From Salon

Another pupil, data scientist Ryan Mcmanus, said it was the end of an era.

From BBC

Isaac Maddow-Zimet, a Guttmacher data scientist, said data collection has been used by abortion opponents to overburden clinics with paperwork and force patients to answer intrusive questions.

From Salon

Between 1990 and 2020, the number of homes in the metro Los Angeles region’s wildland-urban interface, where human development meets undeveloped wildland, swelled from 1.4 million to 2 million — a growth rate of 44%, according to David Helmers, a geospatial data scientist in the Silvis Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

From Los Angeles Times