PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Joseph Simonian
AU  - Frank J. Fabozzi
TI  - Triumph of the Empiricists: <em>The Birth of Financial Data Science</em>
AID  - 10.3905/jfds.2019.1.010
DP  - 2019 Jan 18
TA  - The Journal of Financial Data Science
PG  - jfds.2019.1.010
4099  - https://pm-research.com/content/early/2019/01/23/jfds.2019.1.010.short
4100  - https://pm-research.com/content/early/2019/01/23/jfds.2019.1.010.full
AB  - 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.