Introducing Data Science

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Authors

About the Cover Illustration

Chapter 1. Data science in a big data world

1.1. Benefits and uses of data science and big data

1.2. Facets of data

1.2.1. Structured data

1.2.2. Unstructured data

1.2.3. Natural language

1.2.4. Machine-generated data

1.2.5. Graph-based or network data

1.2.6. Audio, image, and video

1.2.7. Streaming data

1.3. The data science process

1.3.1. Setting the research goal

1.3.2. Retrieving data

1.3.3. Data preparation

1.3.4. Data exploration

1.3.5. Data modeling or model building

1.3.6. Presentation and automation

1.4. The big data ecosystem and data science

1.4.1. Distributed file systems ...