The document discusses data science and data analytics. It defines data science as applying advanced analytics techniques and statistical principles to extract valuable information from data for business decision making and strategic planning. Data science incorporates various disciplines like data engineering, data preparation, data mining, predictive analytics, machine learning, and data visualization. It also discusses the differences between data science and data analytics, noting that data science focuses on finding meaningful correlations in large datasets while data analytics uncovers specifics of extracted insights. Finally, it outlines the typical steps in a data science project as business problem identification, data acquisition, data preparation, exploratory data analysis, data modeling, visualization, deployment.