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Data Scientist: The Engineer of the Future

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Enterprise Interoperability VI

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Although our capabilities to store and process data have been increasing exponentially since the 1960s, suddenly many organizations realize that survival is not possible without exploiting available data intelligently. Out of the blue, “Big Data” has become a topic in board-level discussions. The abundance of data will change many jobs across all industries. Moreover, also scientific research is becoming more data-driven. Therefore, we reflect on the emerging data science discipline. Just like computer science emerged as a new discipline from mathematics when computers became abundantly available, we now see the birth of data science as a new discipline driven by the torrents of data available today. We believe that the data scientist will be the engineer of the future. Therefore, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) established the Data Science Center Eindhoven (DSC/e). This article discusses the data science discipline and motivates its importance.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (MF 7.103), Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, ML-5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Wil M. P. van der Aalst

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  1. INTEROP VLab AISBL, Knowledge Raven Management GmbH, Berlin, Germany

    Kai Mertins

  2. Centre Génie Industriel, École des Mines d'Albi-Carmaux, Albi CT Cédex, France

    Frédérick Bénaben

  3. Research Centre on Production Management and Engineering, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Alcoy, Alicante, Spain

    Raúl Poler

  4. Laboratoire de l'Intégration du Matériau au Système, Talence Cedex, France

    Jean-Paul Bourrières

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van der Aalst, W.M.P. (2014). Data Scientist: The Engineer of the Future. In: Mertins, K., Bénaben, F., Poler, R., Bourrières, JP. (eds) Enterprise Interoperability VI. Proceedings of the I-ESA Conferences, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04948-9_2

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