The Agentic Data Science Playbook: Delegating Analysis to AI Agents

Agentic data science has AI agents explore datasets, choose modeling approaches, run analyses, and explain findings while data scientists frame questions and verify evidence.

In an experiment, Claude Opus 5.0 given the vague prompt "Build me a model to detect fraudulent nodes" on a modified Elliptic Bitcoin dataset reported F1 0.87 and ROC AUC 0.99 using a random split that leaked a planted label proxy.