Data scientist is the sexy term for statistician. It's almost as overused and undefined as "big data". You could also call an all-round data scientist a unicor

Data scientist is the sexy term for statistician. It's almost as overused and undefined as "big data". You could also call an all-round data scientist a unicorn, since they do not seem to exist. Data science requires a combination of maths/stats, computer science and domain expertise. A statistician who does not know how to run a regression on her dataset, or works on clicklog data without understanding CTR and ROI in a business context, is not really a data scientist. Here is a Venn diagram: http://www.itworld.com/sites/default/files/data-science-venn.png http://www.itworld.com/sites/default/files/data-science-venn... To DataRobot: Grats on the funding and attracting top talent! Awaiting your product when you release in the fall.