What Is Data Science?

✍ Scribed by Loukides, Mike

• Book ID: 110506396
• Publisher: O’Reilly Media
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 281 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

We�ve all heard it: according to Hal Varian, statistics is the next sexy job. Five years ago, in What is Web 2.0, Tim O�Reilly said that �data is the next Intel Inside.� But what does that statement mean? Why do we suddenly care about statistics and about data? This report examines the many sides of data science -- the technologies, the companies and the unique skill sets.