Chapter 1
Considering the History and Uses of Data Science
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding data science history and uses
Considering the flow of data in data science
Working with various languages in data science
Performing data science tasks quickly
The burgeoning uses for data in the world today, along with the explosion of data sources, create a demand for people who have special skills to obtain, manage, and analyze information for the benefit of everyone. The data scientist develops and hones these special skills to perform such tasks on multiple levels, as described in the first two sections of this chapter.
Data needs to be funneled into acceptable forms that allow data scientists to perform their tasks. Even though the precise data flow varies, you can generalize it to a degree. The third section of the chapter gives you an overview of how data flow occurs.
As with anyone engaged in computer work today, a data scientist employs various programming languages to express the manipulation of data in a repeatable manner. The languages that a data scientist uses, however, focus ...
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