{"id":4293,"date":"2012-03-10T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=4293"},"modified":"2025-06-28T17:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T21:03:33","slug":"what-is-a-data-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=4293","title":{"rendered":"Director interviewed by Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is a Data Scientist? That was the question put to the Institute&#8217;s director, Dr. Michael Rappa, in a <a title=\"Forbes interview\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/danwoods\/2012\/03\/05\/what-is-a-data-scientist-michael-rappa-north-carolina-state-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent interview with Forbes<\/a> contributing writer, Dan Woods. Data science has emerged as the\u00a0latest way to describe the ongoing quest to master the skill of drawing insights from vast quantities and varieties of data\u2014sometimes called &#8220;big data&#8221;\u2014which is core to the mission of the Institute. The interview with Dr. Rappa is the latest in a Forbes series on the subject with the country&#8217;s leading thinkers and practitioners in data science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a Data Scientist? That was the question put to the Institute&#8217;s director, Dr. Michael Rappa, in a recent interview with Forbes contributing writer, Dan Woods. Data science has emerged as the\u00a0latest way to describe the ongoing quest to master the skill of drawing insights from vast quantities and varieties of data\u2014sometimes called &#8220;big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4293"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26022,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions\/26022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}