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wrangler

4 7.1

A person who collects and cleans messy data for analysis

noun
/ˈræŋɡlər/

Specialized

: especialista en preparación de datos

With Spurs, I can tell there's a grain of fact to his brags because I was in the wrangler game myself.

But I think I mean this, this, you know, this whole thing about kind of the AI wranglers, AI psychologists, all that stuff will come.

Examples

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Blog text (26)
This is my colleague Steve Woodward, our data wrangler.

Kong: Skull Island (2017)
As a skilled wrangler, she transformed messy datasets into clear insights for the team.
The company's wrangler organized the raw data before the analysis began.
Hiring a professional wrangler is essential for ensuring high-quality data for our project.

Compounds

horse wrangler

1 7.1

A person who cares for and handles horses on a ranch or film set

How Technical

statistician

Specialized

23 6.7

wrangler

Specialized

4 7.1

analyst

355 3.2

data processor

Formal

3.9

clerk

273 2.5

Surface Forms

wrangler singular

wranglers plural

Morphology

wrangler = wrangle (semi-transparent) = wrangle + er

The data-science sense is a metaphorical extension of 'wrangle' (to handle/manage), so the formation is transparent in structure but the domain-specific meaning is an extension.

Etymology

Wrangler in data work is a newer use of wrangle, meaning 'to tame' or 'to handle' something messy; think of a cowboy taming horses, and a data wrangler tame untidy information so it can be used.