What is Data Science

DataRobot “Data science is known as a field of study that combines programming skills, domain expertise, and knowledge of mathematics and statistics to extract meaningful insights from data.”

Venn Diagram source, CC BY-NC 3.0

The adjacent diagram splits data science into three main domains

• Hacking skills (programming)
• Math & statistics knowledge
• Substantive expertice

Hacking skills refer to programming skills, substantive expertise refers to the domain knowledge that a data scientist possesses of the application field or topic that is being analyzed. In the very core of data science, one can find computer science and statistics. This interdisciplinary process extracts insights from raw data using various automated techniques.

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