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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