data scientist

American  

[dey-tuh sahy-uhn-tist, dat-uh] / ˈdeɪ tə ˌsaɪ ən tɪst, ˈdæt ə /

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.

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Etymology

Origin of data scientist

First recorded in 2005–10

Example Sentences

Bores used to work at Palantir as a data scientist, and Vlasto’s group devoted much of its campaign against him to highlighting that link.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I have a colleague who is a data scientist, and he and his student are generating millions of brackets as we speak,” he says.

From MarketWatch

Max Motz is a macro data scientist at Fundstrat Global Advisors, an investment-research firm.

From MarketWatch

Before becoming the company’s head of AI in 2023, he was a data scientist and worked on predictive analytics.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Prima works like a radiologist by integrating information regarding the patient's medical history and imaging data to produce a comprehensive understanding of their health," said co-first author Samir Harake, a data scientist in Hollon's Machine Learning in Neurosurgery Lab.

From Science Daily