data science

noun

: the application of scientific analysis to large often unstructured sets of data

The shift from hypothesis testing to machine learning approaches—from pure statistics to data science—is a huge shift.

—Robert Kabacoff, quoted in The Wesleyan Argus (Wesleyan University)

… has assembled a data science team that mines the vast amount of information contained in the relationships and profiles of the social network's … users.

—Mike Swift

also : the branch of science that deals with the applications and techniques of data analysis compare information science

Word History

First Known Use

1963, in the meaning defined above