What is in a Name? A Data Scientist by any other name

The term "data science" was first used by the statistician William H. Cleveland in his 2001 paper entitled, "Data Science: An Action Plan for Expanding the Technical Areas of t...". Cleveland emphasized that the "[results in] data science should be judged by the extent to which they enable the analyst to learn from data". The scientific discipline of learning from data has been happening for centuries before the term data science ever came into being. Statisticians have been collecting, processing, analysing, visualising and interpreting vast amounts of diverse data to generate models. In doing so, they developed many algorithms that are used for regression and classification such as GLM (Generalised Linear Modeling) and embedded in statistical packages such as SAS and SPSS that are used extensively to this day.