data science

English

Etymology

Popularized by DJ Patil and Jeff Hammerbacher, 2000s.

Noun

data science

  1. (sciences) An interdisciplinary field about scientific methods, processes and systems to extract knowledge or insights from data.
    Hypernym: science
    • 2011, DJ Patil, Building Data Science Teams, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2026 September 3, Stephen Buranyi, “‘A crisis of authenticity’: the truth about food influencers”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      When I spoke to the director of data science, Adam Davison, and senior compliance executive Ed Senior, they explained that as long as a post is tagged somewhere as an ad, and a viewer could reasonably find that disclosure, influencers are generally in the clear.

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