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dataist en · ADJ

Etymology

From data + -ist.

Meanings

  1. Pertaining to or characterized by dataism.
    • And rest assured, as the productivity of the dataist world surges, we will be kept fed and entertained. 2017 May 22, (Steve) Sichang Long, “Humanity has become too empowered to make sense of our future”, in e27:
    • Hara way offers a powerful new myth — the cyborg — for our postmodern dataist era which, according to her, follows a "command-control-communication-intelligence" code. 1996, American Studies, page 652:
    • If the retro-futures are based in externalization and visibility, then one notices in the architecture of Future World the very erosion of the visible and the dataist implosion behind the mirrors of anonymous technocultural interfaces. 2003, Scott Bukatman, Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century, →ISBN:

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dataist en · NOUN

Etymology

From data + -ist.

Meanings

  1. One who works with data.
    • There are not enough chefs and too many "dataists" handling data that our current disciplines cannot possibly prepare, serve, and digest what they make by themselves. 1992, Todd Siler, Breaking the mind barrier: the artscience of neurocosmology, →ISBN, page 362:
    • Operating a computer is not a complex task. Anybody can be taught to operate a computer. On the other hand, the smartest computer dataist cannot sit down at the control of a computer he had never seen before and make it do anything. 1982, Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in the Medicare Pacemaker Industry:
  2. A proponent of dataism.
    • If the Temeraire represents grounded theory (and other dataists) and at her last berth postmodernism waits, what about hermeneutics and critical theory? 2000, Mats Alvesson, Kaj Sköldberg, Reflexive Methodology: New Vistas for Qualitative Research, →ISBN, page 321:

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