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/
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Origin YearPeter 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 ConcernInterdisciplinary use of statistics, algorithms and computing to extract knowledge from noisy, structured or unstructured data 1 Data Science
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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
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Source Wikipedia: Wil van der Aalst
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Data science is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses statistics, scientific computing, scientific methods, processing, scientific visualization, algorithms, coding (like Python, SQL, and R), and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge from potentially noisy, structured, or unstructured data.
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The term "data science" has been traced back to 1974, when Peter Naur proposed it as an alternative name to computer science.
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Data scientists often work with unstructured data such as text or images and use machine learning algorithms to build predictive models.
View the Source Nitesh Chawla - Wikipedia
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machine learning, data science, and network science
Ross Ihaka (Wikipedia)
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he is one of the creators of the R programming language
Martin Ester (Wikipedia)
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His research focuses on data mining and machine learning
Wikipedia: Wil van der Aalst
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leading the Process and Data Science (PADS) group
Frank Yates (MacTutor)
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In 1954 he purchased a computer to assist with the statistical analysis to the data at Rothamsted.
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