NIST seeks to bring rigor to data science

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants to bring some metrics and rigor to the nascent but rapidly growing field of data science.

The government agency is embarking on a project to develop by 2016 a framework that can be used by all industries to understand how to use, and measure the results from data science, and big data projects.

NIST, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is holding a symposium on Tuesday and Wednesday at its Gaithersburg, Maryland, headquarters with big data specialists and data scientists to better understand the challenges around the emerging discipline.

Joab Jackson

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