Data Quote by 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

Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.

— Robert Rodriguez

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

— Nate Silver

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

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

— Harper Reed

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

“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

The job of the data scientist is to ask the right questions.

— Hilary Mason

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

“Data science is the civil engineering of data. Its acolytes possess a practical knowledge of tools and materials, coupled with a theoretical understanding of…

— Rachel Schutt

Companies are getting bitten by hiring a data scientist who isn't really a data scientist.

— Anthony Goldbloom

Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

— Gordon Bell