data science

[dey-tuh sahy-uhns, dat-uh]

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noun

Digital Technology.

a field that deals with advanced data analytics and modeling, using mathematics, statistics, programming, and machine learning to extract valuable, often predictive information from large data sets.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of data science¹

First recorded in 1995–2000

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Brian Verrelli, a professor in the Center of Biological Data Science at Virginia Commonwealth University, sees many of these questions as philosophical.

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But the Met Office is now working with experts from the Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national centre for data science and AI, to build a new global forecasting system powered by AI.

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Lauren Harvey is a graduate student at USC studying communication data science.

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Lauren Ng is a Torrance native and rising junior at New York University studying journalism, food studies, public policy and data science.

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The league has leaned increasingly into analytics and data science in building the schedule with a team led by Michael North, vice president of broadcast planning.

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