 With its concerns with searching and effectively presenting data, statistics has overlap with information science and computer science.The term "statistics" is ultimately derived from the New Latin "statisticum collegium" ("council of state") and the Italian word "statista" ("statesman" or "politician").The German "Statistik", first introduced by Gottfried Achenwall (1749), originally designated the analysis of data about the state, signifying the "science of state" (then called "political arithmetic" in English).