Data Science!
This time I will talk about a trending subject that many people like to talk about online. It is "Data Science".
I know I have promised to do some practical and technical articles and I did not forget about that, trust me ;)
I am currently working on a project and I will be posting a series of R demonstrations of my work (my statistician's graduation thesis) and I will be adding more things along the way.
So, about data Science, It is the new word in the dictionary I guess! Data Science is the thing that a large number of people were doing but someone thought that it would be cool to give it a name, and it was a cool name indeed!
What is Data Science? I don't want to copy/paste Wikipedia's definition here (but you have the link to it so you can check for yourself). I will give you my own vision and my personal understanding of the concept.
You should always remember that I come from a very technical background, as a statistician and data analyst.
So! I will start with a quote from the New York Times about data science:
I know I have promised to do some practical and technical articles and I did not forget about that, trust me ;)
I am currently working on a project and I will be posting a series of R demonstrations of my work (my statistician's graduation thesis) and I will be adding more things along the way.
So, about data Science, It is the new word in the dictionary I guess! Data Science is the thing that a large number of people were doing but someone thought that it would be cool to give it a name, and it was a cool name indeed!
What is Data Science? I don't want to copy/paste Wikipedia's definition here (but you have the link to it so you can check for yourself). I will give you my own vision and my personal understanding of the concept.
You should always remember that I come from a very technical background, as a statistician and data analyst.
So! I will start with a quote from the New York Times about data science:
“This hot new field promises to revolutionize industries from business to government, health care to academia.”
— The New York Times
It's the hot new thing!
I see data science as the activity that involves collecting, cleaning, analyzing, visualizing and delivering the data as a simple useful information. It involves mathematical skills, coding skills and also as an important (very important) part of data science is to have extremely good analytic skills.