Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

data science

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.92 in modern English

Syllables: data -science
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An interdisciplinary field about scientific methods, processes and systems to extract knowledge or insights from data.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

Popularized by DJ Patil and Jeff Hammerbacher, 2000s.

Phrases

data scientist data management data modeling data processing data cleaning data journalism deep learning knowledge management

Frequently Paired Words

data management data modeling data processing data cleaning analytics data journalism deep learning knowledge management

Questions

What does data science mean?: An interdisciplinary field about scientific methods, processes and systems to extract knowledge or insights from data.
Where does data science come from?: Popularized by DJ Patil and Jeff Hammerbacher, 2000s.

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