In Japan, now "Artificial Intelligence" comes to be a super star, while "Data Scientist" has been forgotten

Almost two years ago, I wrote a post about the situation of "Data Scientist" and "Artificial Intelligence" at that time.

After two years have passed, now what's happening and what do we see? Below is a summary of current situation of data science, data scientist, artificial intelligence and related topics in Japan.

Can multivariate modeling predict taste of wine? Beyond human intuition and univariate reductionism

Taste of Wine vs. Data Science from Takashi J OZAKI

At a certain meetup on the other day, I talked about a brand-new relationship between taste of wine (i.e. professional tasting) and data science. This talk was inspired by a book "Wine Science: The Application of Science in Winemaking". Below is its Japanese edition.

新しいワインの科学

For readers who can't read Japanese, I summarized the content of the talk in this post. Just for your information, I myself am a super wine lover :) and I'm also much interested in how data science explain taste of wine.

In order to run analytics below, I prepared an R workspace in my GitHub repository. Please download and import it into your R environment.

(Note: All quotes from Goode's book here are reversely translated from the Japanese edition and it may contain not a few difference from the original version)

In Japan "Data Scientist" has gone and "Artificial Intelligence" is explosively rising

More than a year ago, I pointed out that "Data Scientist" has attracted less attention than ever.

So, what's going on in 2015?... yes, I think not a few data science experts in Japan must agree that "Artificial Intelligence" explosively gets popular. Indeed we see a lot of media coverage whose title include "人工知能" (artificial intelligence in Japanese) almost every day. Google News Japanese edition shows as below.

• Google News Japanese edition: search result with "人工知能"

Even within a year there are too many media coverage titled "Artificial Intelligence". Google Trends clearly shows what's going on currently. Below is a search result from 2004 to now (Feb 2015).

Focused on more recent situation, see below; from 2012 to now.