What is Data Science?
It's not just a buzzword.
Data science uses statistics, computer science, mathematics, and graphic design to derive meaning from data.
Think of data science in terms of tasks, goals, and its related terms
Tasks
- Collecting, analyzing, and transforming data
- Exploring summarizing and visualizing data
- Training, validating and implementing models
Goals
- Describing and visualizing information that is explicit in the data
- Predicting and inferring information that is implicit in the data
- Prescribing optimal decisions given business constraints and known and probable information.
Related Terms
- Machine Learning - ML (a prediction paradigm)
- Artificial Intelligence - AI (the application of ML)
- Predictive Analytics
- Deep Learning (a powerful form of ML)
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