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Data science is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses statistics, scientific computing, scientific methods, processing, scientific visualization, algorithms, coding and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge from data that may be noisy, structured or unstructured. A data scientist is a professional who writes programming code and combines it with statistical knowledge to summarize data. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Disputed
Origin Year
1974 1
Peter Naur proposed the term in 1974 as an alternative name for computer science; C. F. Jeff Wu used it independently in a 1985 lecture as an alternative name for statistics. The sources do not reconcile a single coining.
Core Concern
Interdisciplinary use of statistics, algorithms and computing to extract knowledge from noisy, structured or unstructured data 1
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Associated With

Computational Science, Fields

Field-to-field association; both are standard neighbouring areas of computing

Field-to-field association; both are standard neighbouring areas of computing

Data Mining, Fields

Field-to-field association; both are standard neighbouring areas of computing

Databases, Fields

Field-to-field association; both are standard neighbouring areas of computing

Source Wikipedia: Data science
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1. Wikipedia: Data science
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  • Lead section, para 1
    Data science is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses statistics, scientific computing, scientific methods, processing, scientific visualization, algorithms, coding and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge from data.
  • Etymology section
    The term 'data science' has been traced back to 1974, when Peter Naur proposed it as an alternative name to computer science.
  • Associated With: Machine Learning, Foundations section
    Data scientists often work with unstructured data such as text or images and use machine learning algorithms to build predictive models.
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