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Wednesday, July 12, 2023

What is Data Science


  • Data science is to make data useful for decisions
  • Data science encompasses three disciplines: 
    • Statistics; decision making under uncertainty on data. Excellence of statistics is rigorous approach.
    • Machine learning; automation of decision making under uncertainty on data. Performance is the excellence of the machine learning.
    • Analytics; find the unknown and don't know how many decisions you want to make before you begin. The excellence of an analyst is speed.