1 The data science process
This chapter covers
- Defining data science
- Defining data science project roles
- Understanding the stages of a data science project
- Setting expectations for a new data science project
Data science is a cross-disciplinary practice that draws on methods from data engineering, descriptive statistics, data mining, machine learning, and predictive analytics. Much like operations research, data science focuses on implementing data-driven decisions and managing their consequences. For this book, we will concentrate on data science as applied to business and scientific problems, using these techniques.
The data scientist is responsible for guiding a data science project from start to finish. Success in a data science project ...
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