Beginning Data Science, IoT, and AI on Single Board Computers: Core Skills and Real-World Application with the BBC micro:bit and XinaBox

© Philip Meitiner, Pradeeka Seneviratne 2020

P. Meitiner, P. SeneviratneBeginning Data Science, IoT, and AI on Single Board Computershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5766-1_1

1. Introducing Data Science

Philip Meitiner¹  and Pradeeka Seneviratne²

(1)

Yorkshire, UK

(2)

Udumulla, Mulleriyawa, Sri Lanka

 

A new day dawns. The alarm clock goes off and you leap out of bed, ready to face the world. You scan the weather report, settle on some clothes, grab a bite of breakfast – maybe cereal with milk. You might check a traffic update and then plan your route to school or work accordingly.

By the time your day has started you have already interacted with loads of different types of data – the time, the weather report, traffic updates, sports results and even ...