0 someone who studies or works in data science (= the use of scientific methods to obtain useful information from computer data): --
They produce a set of free big-data tools for developers and data scientists.
You might be an economist, a statistician or some other data scientist who has been given a series of data to analyse.
I spoke with a senior data scientist at LinkedIn about where the idea for the tool came from.
Larry Black, a Facebook data scientist, said he and his team looked at how many times each phrase occurred in US Facebook status updates.
He says the best data scientists tend to be “hard scientists”, particularly physicists, rather than computer science majors.