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  • - Data science is a process, not an event.

  • It is the process of using data

  • to understand different things,

  • to understand the world.

  • - For me, it's when you have a model,

  • or a hypothesis of a problem,

  • and you try to validate that hypothesis or model

  • with your data.

  • - Data science is the art of uncovering

  • the insights and trends that are hiding behind data.

  • - It's when you translate data into a story,

  • so you use the storytelling to generate insights.

  • And with these insights,

  • you can make strategic...

  • choices for a company or institution.

  • - Data science is a field about processes and systems,

  • to extract data from various forms,

  • whether it is an unstructured or structured form.

  • - Data science is the study of data,

  • like biological sciences are the study of biology;

  • physical sciences, it's the study of physical reactions.

  • Data is real, data has real properties,

  • and we need to study them,

  • if we're gonna work on them.

  • - Data science involves data and some science.

  • The definition, or the name,

  • came up in the 80s and 90s when some professors

  • were looking into the statistics curriculum,

  • and they thought it would be better to call it data science.

  • But what is data science?

  • I see data science as one's attempt to work with data

  • to find answers to questions that they are exploring.

  • In a nutshell, it's more about data

  • than it is about science.

  • If you have data, and you have curiosity,

  • and you're working with data,

  • and you're manipulating it,

  • you're exploring it,

  • the very exercise of going through analyzing data,

  • trying to get some answers from it, is data science.

  • Data science is relevant today

  • because we have tons of data available.

  • We used to worry about lack of data;

  • now we have a data deluge.

  • In the past, we didn't have algorithms;

  • now we have algorithms.

  • In the past, the software was expensive;

  • now it's open source and free.

  • In the past, we couldn't store large amounts of data;

  • now, for a fraction of the cost,

  • we can have gazillions of data sets for very low costs,

  • so the tools to work with data,

  • the very availability of data,

  • and the ability to store and analyze data,

  • it's all cheap, it's all available,

  • it's all ubiquitous, it's here.

  • There's never been a better time to be a data scientist.

- Data science is a process, not an event.

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