Chapter 1. Programming and Data Science – A New Toolset
"Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves."
– Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee)
In this introductory chapter, I'll start the conversation by attempting to answer a few fundamental questions that will hopefully provide context and clarity for the rest of this book:
- What is data science and why it's on the rise
- Why is data science here to stay
- Why do developers need to get involved in data science
Using my experience as a developer and recent data science practitioner, I'll then discuss a concrete data pipeline project that I worked on and a data science strategy that derived from this work, which is comprised ...
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