{"id":1662,"date":"2019-05-27T15:17:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T13:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecole.ensai.fr\/?page_id=1662"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:42:50","slug":"les-metiers-de-la-data-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ensai.fr\/en\/apres-lensai\/les-metiers-de-la-data-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know about being a Data Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">While Data Science is not a new subject &#8211; statisticians and mathematicians have always exploited and analyzed data &#8211; the term and the profession of \u201cData Scientist\u201d are\u00a0, since\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/professional.mit.edu\/news\/articles\/data-scientists-new-breed-innovators\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">MIT dates its existence back to 2008<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">.\u202fThat&#8217;s\u00a0when Big Data analysis became essential to boosting performance, even in non-market sectors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Nearly two\u00a0decades later, in an era of profound economic transformation driven by advances in artificial intelligence, the need for engineers specialized in data exploitation is growing considerably. The Data Scientist thus occupies a major place in the scientific professions of the digital\u00a0age and\u00a0plays a key role in companies and public organizations.\u00a0Here&#8217;s\u00a0how it works.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Data Science is not a new subject &#8211; statisticians and mathematicians&#8230; <br \/><a class=\"readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/ensai.fr\/en\/apres-lensai\/les-metiers-de-la-data-2\/\">Lire la suite<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15346,"parent":1684,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"modele_formation.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1662","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Everything you need to know about being a Data Scientist | ENSAI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ensai.fr\/en\/apres-lensai\/les-metiers-de-la-data-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Everything you need to know about being a Data Scientist | ENSAI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While Data Science is not a new subject &#8211; statisticians and mathematicians... 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