Practical Data Science with Hadoop® and Spark: Designing and Building Effective Analytics at Scale

2. Use Cases for Data Science

Hiding within those mounds of data is knowledge that could change the life of a patient, or can change the world.

Atul Butte, Stanford

In This Chapter:

We discuss how big data drives change in data-driven organizations

We review common business use cases for data science

In Chapter 1, “Introduction to Data Science,” we covered a lot of the basic terminology around data science and its history. As Hadoop adoption accelerates and organizations build their so-called data lake¹—a central location for all of their datasets—many ...