Home › Words › D › dataistdataistdataist means pertaining to or characterized by dataism.EtymologyFrom data + -ist.adjPertaining to or characterized by dataism.e.g.“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:Pertaining to Dataism.e.g.“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:nounOne who works with data.A proponent of dataism.e.g.“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:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.dataism 72% match — The belief that all knowledge consists of data and that scientific theories should only be the simplest systematizations of that data. vs dataist →dadaistic 62% match — Pertaining to dadaism. vs dataist →datalike 60% match — Resembling or characteristic of data. vs dataist →datarati 59% match — People with a professional or otherwise profound interest in data, considered as a class; data analysts, statisticians. vs dataist →deist 58% match — Of or relating to deism and deists. vs dataist →deistical 57% match — Of or relating to deism. vs dataist →deistic 56% match — Of or relating to deism. vs dataist →thingism 55% match — Materialism. vs dataist →