dataist

dataist adjective: pertaining to or characterized by dataism.

Adjective (1)

dataist (comparative more dataist, superlative most dataist)

Pertaining to or characterized by dataism.
- 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

dataist (plural dataists)

One who works with data.
- 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
- 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
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

Dataist (comparative more Dataist, superlative most Dataist)

(alternative) Alternative form of dataist (Pertaining to dataism)
- The Dataist historians reject historiography on a theoretical level; the Interpretationist historians trade off their own productivity for foreign credits.1981, Renditions - Issues 15-18, page 22
- In its extreme form, proponents of the Dataist worldview perceive the entire universe as a flow of data, see organisms as little more than biochemical algorithms and believe that humanity's cosmic vocation is to create an all-encompassing data-processing system — and then merge into it.2016 August 26, Yuval Noah Harari, “Yuval Noah Harari on big data, Google and the end of free will”, in Financial Times
Pertaining to Dataism.
- Dataist works are not singular art objects but algorithmic procedures and digital databases that have a symbolic description.1993, Frank Popper, Art of the electronic age, page 87
- The "Dataist" works are not only unique art objects. They are algorithmic processes and data bases. The Dataist art works can appear as existing in a 3D space, and as moving in the time.1999, Jean-Claude Heudin, Virtual Worlds: Synthetic Universes, Digital Life, and Complexity

Dataist (plural Dataists)

(alternative) Alternative form of dataist (Proponent of dataism)
- As a matter of fact, evidence shows that while the Chinese Interpretationists owe a heavy spiritual debt to Hegel and Marx, the Dataists are no less a true intellectual heir of the Rankean school than of the Ch'ing philological tradition.1981, Renditions - Issues 15-18, page 17
- However dissatisfied we are with the “Dataists” and the “Interpretationists,” due recognition must nevertheless be given to their respective contributions to the study of Chinese history.2016, Ying-shih Yu, Chinese History and Culture, →ISBN

From data + -ist.

What does dataist mean?: Dataist means pertaining to or characterized by dataism.
What part of speech is dataist?: Dataist can be an adjective or a noun.

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