Dataist

English

Adjective

Dataist (comparative more Dataist, superlative most Dataist)

1. Alternative form of dataist (Pertaining to dataism)
   • 1981, Renditions - Issues 15-18, page 22:

     The Dataist historians reject historiography on a theoretical level; the Interpretationist historians trade off their own productivity for foreign credits.

   • 2016 August 26, Yuval Noah Harari, “Yuval Noah Harari on big data, Google and the end of free will”, in Financial Times:

     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.

   • 2017 February 21, Olivia Solon, “Sorry, Y'All—Humanity's Nearing an Upgrade to Irrelevance”, in Wired:

     In a Dataist age, meaning is generated by the external data processing system.

2. (art) Pertaining to Dataism.
   • 1993, Frank Popper, Art of the electronic age, page 87:

     Dataist works are not singular art objects but algorithmic procedures and digital databases that have a symbolic description.

   • 1999, Jean-Claude Heudin, Virtual Worlds: Synthetic Universes, Digital Life, and Complexity:

     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.

Noun

Dataist (plural Dataists)

1. Alternative form of dataist (Proponent of dataism)
   • 1981, Renditions - Issues 15-18, page 17:

     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.

   • 2016, Ying-shih Yu, Chinese History and Culture, →ISBN:

     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, Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, →ISBN:

     Just as capitalists believe that all good things depend on economic growth, so Dataists believe all good things – including economic growth – depend on the freedom of information.