The document defines a data scientist as someone who analyzes complex data to assist business decisions and highlights the increasing demand for this role. It discusses data visualization as a creative way to interpret data and communicate solutions. Additionally, it provides links to publicly available data sources for those interested in starting with data science.

2. Data Scientist
noun
A person employed to analyze and
interpret complex data in order to help
a business make decisions
Data
noun
facts and statistics collected together for
reference or analysis

3. Here’s an example of data about cows

4. Data Interpreted
Answer:
South Dakota

5. Interpretation is creative. Transforming data from this…

6. To this

7. and…
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8. Why? Data is being collected everywhere. Someone needs to interpret it.

9. Venn Diagram
Business
Specialty Areas in Data Science

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11. Data Visualization
noun
using images to tell a story with data

13. What I love about Data Visualization
• It’s Creative
• Solve Problems
• Investigate Issues
• Communicate Solutions
• Help People

14. Using pictures to tell a story

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21. Some Publicly Available Data Sources
• Tableau Public: World Population, Health, Development, and Business
• NASA’s Open Data Portal: https://data.nasa.gov/login
• USA Federal Budget: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/budget.php
• All Government Data: http://data.gov
• US Census: http://www.census.gov/data.html
• Healthdata.gov: https://www.healthdata.gov/
• Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com/datasets/
• Google Books:
http://storage.googleapis.com/books/ngrams/books/datasetsv2.html
• World Health Organization: http://www.who.int/en/
• Data.world: https://data.world/