Chapter 8
What Is Data Science?
Keywords: Data Engineering, Subject Matter Experts, Citizen Data Scientists, Computer Science, ML (Machine Learning), AI (Artificial Intelligence), BI
Preamble
In the last chapter, we covered AI and how it differs from the other methods covered in this book. We have now covered many of the techniques that data scientists use – data mining, machine learning, and AI. We will explore the use of big data in the next chapter and finally statistics in Chapter 10. This will complete the major tools in the toolbox of the data scientist that we feel should be “the essentials that every data scientist should know.”
Now, we explore the fundamental questions:
