%0 Journal Article %A Joseph Simonian %A Frank J. Fabozzi %T Triumph of the Empiricists: The Birth of Financial Data Science %D 2019 %R 10.3905/jfds.2019.1.010 %J The Journal of Financial Data Science %P jfds.2019.1.010 %X The authors situate financial data science within the broader history of econometrics and argue that its ascendance marks a reorientation of the field toward a more empirical and pragmatic stance. They also argue that owing to the unique nature of financial information, financial data science should be considered a field in its own right and not just an application of data science methods to finance. %U https://jfds.pm-research.com/content/iijjfds/early/2019/01/23/jfds.2019.1.010.full.pdf