"Data Science" was covered in the press as a hot new field in 2011, even though KDnuggets readers who actually analyze data use it very infrequently.
New KDnuggets Poll is asking:
This poll is now closed, but here are the results of KDnuggets Poll: How different is "Data Science" from "Statistics" ?
See also recent discussion in LinkedIn group Advanced Business Analytics, Data Mining and Predictive Modeling on Big data and the emerging role of the 'data scientist': Hype or true?