Meanings
- sciencesAn 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.
2011, DJ Patil, Building Data Science Teams, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN
Origin
Popularized by DJ Patil and Jeff Hammerbacher, 2000s.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic عِلْم البَيَانَات
- عِلْم البَيَانَات (ʕilm al-bayānāt)field
Chinese Mandarin 數據科學 /数据科学
- 數據科學 /数据科学 (shùjù kēxué)field
Finnish datatiede
- datatiedefield
French science des données
- science des donnéesfield
German Datenwissenschaft
- Datenwissenschaftfield
Italian scienza dei dati
- scienza dei datifield
Japanese データ科学, データサイエンス
- データ科学field
- データサイエンスfield
Polish danologia
- danologiafield
Portuguese ciência de dados
- ciência de dadosfield
Spanish ciencia de datos
- ciencia de datosfield
Cite this entry
data science. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/data%20science
“data science.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/data%20science. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “data science,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/data%20science.
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