Data science, also known as data-driven science, is an interdisciplinary field of scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge or insights from data in various forms, either structured or unstructured, similar to data mining. Data Science is a super-set of the fields of statistics and machine learning (1). DSI (Data Science Initiative, 2015) website, gives us an idea about what Data Science is : "This coupling of scientific discovery and practice involves the collection, management, processing, analysis, visualization, and interpretation of vast amounts of heterogeneous data associated with a diverse array of scientific, translational, and interdisciplinary applications." Data Science vs Statistics: According to Data Science Association’s...
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