What is Data Science?

Data Science is an interdisciplinary field focused on extracting knowledge from data sets, which are typically large (see big data), and applying the knowledge and actionable insights from data to solve problems in a wide range of application domains.

Data Scientist...

1. Have a passion for data
2. Relate problems to analytics
3. Care aboute engineering solution
4. Exhibit curisity
5. Communicate with teammates

4 Skills Your Need to Become a Data Scientist

1. problem solving intuition
2. Statistical Knowledge
3. Programming in an analytic language
4. Curisity (keep asking why)

Modern Data Science Skills

1. Programming in python
2. Statistics
3. Machine Learning
4. Scalable Big Data Analysis

Why Python for Data Science

1. Easy-to-read and learn
2. Vibrant community
3. Growing and evoling set of libraries
4. Data Managment
5. Analytical processing
6. Visualization
7. Application to each step in the data science process
8. Notebooks: Jupyter, Google CoLab