Data Science for Decision Makers

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Introducing Data Science

Data science is not a new term; in fact, it was coined in the 1960s by Peter Naur, a Danish computer science pioneer who used the term data science to describe the process of working with data in various fields, including mathematics, statistics, and computer science.

Later, the modern use of data science began to take shape in the 1990s and early 2000s, and data scientist, as a profession, became more and more common across different industries.

With the exponential rise in artificial intelligence, one may think that data science is less relevant.

However, the scientific approach to understanding data, which defines data science, is the bedrock upon which successful machine learning and artificial intelligence-based ...