“It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Data, like science, has been ubiquitous the world over since early history. The term data science is not generally taken to literally mean science with data, since without data there would be of science. Rather, it is a specialized field in which data scientists and other practitioners apply advanced computing techniques, usually along with algorithms or predictive analytics to uncover insights that may be challenging to obtain with traditional methods.
Data science as a distinct subject was proposed since ...
