data science

Definitions

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

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“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⟳.”

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