{"id":12534,"date":"2012-01-30T14:16:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T14:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/data-scientist\/"},"modified":"2023-09-02T08:00:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T08:00:58","slug":"data-scientist","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/28177\/data-scientist","title":{"rendered":"Data Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_data_scientist_mean\">What Does Data Scientist Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A data scientist is an individual, organization or application that performs statistical analysis, data mining and retrieval processes on a large amount of data to identify trends, figures and other relevant information.<\/p>\n<p>A data scientist performs data analysis on data stored in data warehouses or data centers to solve a variety of business problems, optimize performance and gather business intelligence.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_data_scientist\">Techopedia Explains Data Scientist<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Data scientists generally analyze big data, or data depositories that are maintained throughout an organization or website&#8217;s existence, but are of virtually no use as far strategic or monetary benefit is concerned. 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