Data Scientist: The Engineer of the Future

Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Abstract Although our capabilities to store and process data have been increasing

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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.

Keywords Data science  Big data  Process mining  Data mining  Visual

analytics  Internet of things

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