Lesson 1238 of 1524
What Are Data and Data Science?
Data science is a field of study that investigates how to collect, manage, and analyze data of all types in order to retrieve meaningful information.
Practice this chapterData science is a field of study that investigates how to collect, manage, and analyze data of all types in order to retrieve meaningful information.
data science — a field of study that investigates how to collect, manage, and analyze data in order to retrieve meaningful information from some seemingly arbitrary data. data — anything that we can analyze to compile some high-level insights. information — some high-level insights that are compiled from data. dataset — a collection of related and organized information or data points grouped together for reference or analysis.
Worked example
What does “data science” mean in What Are Data and Data Science??
- 1Use the wording this chapter gives for data science.
- 2The book says: a field of study that investigates how to collect, manage, and analyze data in order to retrieve meaningful information from some seemingly arbitrary data.
- 3Do not use the meaning of data. That term means anything that we can analyze to compile some high-level insights.
Result: a field of study that investigates how to collect, manage, and analyze data in order to retrieve meaningful information from some seemingly arbitrary data
Why. That is the meaning this chapter gives for data science.
Do not swap data science and data. data science means a field of study that investigates how to collect, manage, and analyze data in order to retrieve meaningful information from some seemingly arbitrary data. data means anything that we can analyze to compile some high-level insights.
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