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Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

— Nate Silver

“the “data scientist,” which combines the skills of the statistician, software programmer, infographics designer, and storyteller.”

— Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

“Data scientist (noun): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician. — Josh Wills”

— Rachel Schutt

A data scientist is that unique blend of skills that can both unlock the insights of data and tell a fantastic story via the…

— DJ Patil

“the best data scientists tend to be “hard scientists,” particularly physicists, rather than computer science majors. Physicists have a strong mathematical background, computing skills,…

— O'Reilly Radar Team

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

— Evan Esar

'Data scientist,' as a profession, is largely a fad.

— Harper Reed

A lot of people seem to think that data science is just a process of adding up a bunch of data and looking at…

— Hilary Mason

I generally believe people should be data savvy, and we should teach statistics in high school... and the reason is the world today really…

— Sebastian Thrun

The whole concept of data science is that the software becomes the expert, and you, as the average user, are able to understand what's…

— Marc Benioff

Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on…

— Thomas Carlyle

I think of 'data science' as a flag that was planted at the intersection of several different disciplines that have not always existed in…

— Hilary Mason