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No longer a field best suited for pure abstraction, data science is all around us today. From major industries to academia, the demand for this expertise continues to grow. An inherently multi-disciplinary field, data science can best be summed up as the process of extracting knowledge. It’s all about fine-tuning our tools to mine, store, process, and synthesize data more effectively.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

American computer scientist and A.M. Turing Award winner Jim Gray spoke of data science as being the \u201cfourth paradigm\u201d\u2013after empirical, theoretical, and computational modes of thought. For Gray, information technology has changed everything. Data science, together with machine learning and distributed computing, remain at the forefront of our current fourth industrial revolution. And, as time goes on, it will only become more ubiquitous. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what is data science all about anyway? And who are the data scientists to follow online for expertise on this fast-growing field? This is our list of the leading thinkers and doers who are most responsible for popularizing the field today. Without them, the tech giants that dominate our digital world\u2014Google, Amazon, and Facebook, to name a few\u2014would be nowhere near the progress they\u2019ve made thus far in AI and machine learning. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yann LeCun<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Follow him <\/span><\/i>on Twitter<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is an old misconception that common sense is rooted in language.
IMHO, common sense emerges from knowing how the world works.
It has more to do with intuitive physics than with language.
But when your world involves communicating with humans, language becomes part of it.<\/p>— Yann LeCun (@ylecun) July 9, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>