What is Data Science ?

Mahbubul Majumder, PhD
Aug 28, 2014

Is it all about big data?

  • Big data is a challenge.
  • Small data is not a challenge?
  • Responses from this class (32 responded so far)

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What is so called big data?

  • Wikipedia says : Big data usually includes data sets with sizes beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, curate, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time.
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  • Its a concept, not actual size
  • Most of you who will work as a data scientist may not even see big data

What is data science?

Taken from your comments on homework zero

  • Data science is used in the analysis of data. Data analysis is important for making companies more efficient by finding patterns in the data that company compiles.
  • Data Science is a new technology that works with big data
  • Data Science is a collaboration of several fields of study in an effort to form a new strategic and intelligent way of describing and presenting a very large data set.
  • Data science is being able to extract useful knowledge from any data set
  • It is used to organize large amounts of data created in most companies
  • I understand data science to be the study of identifying relationships/patterns
  • I do not know much about Data Science but I am interested

Which comments did you like best?

What is this course about?

  • This course is not all of data science
  • This is just an introduction
  • We are offering other courses to the program

UNO Data Science components

Reading assignments