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What is data science?
Many definitions
Cogs 9 Definition: The scientific and ethical process of extracting value from data.
What is the point of the data science process?
- Identify hidden trends in large datasets
- Leverage trends to make predictions
- Compute the probability of each possible future outcome
- Knowledge discovery
Do something useful and ethical with data
Industries where data scientists work
Dr. Pepper-Snapple
- Logistics/Supply
- Marketing
- Product Development
- Sales Platform
- R&D
Lyft
- Forecasting demand
- Arrival time estimate
- Pricing models
- Measure safety
- Detect fraud
- Driver navigation
Stitch Fix
- Inventory Management
- Style classification
- Product development
- Recommendations
- Sales Platform
Airbnb
- Recommendations
- Marketing
- Price setting
- Learning about users
- Image analysis
- Geographic reach
Choc Children’s
- Patient Care
- Marketing
- Insurance claims
- Clinical trials
- Readmission analysis