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Ian Swanson Keynote
Data science involves using automated methods to analyze massive amounts of data from various structured and unstructured sources to extract knowledge and insights. It is an interdisciplinary field that incorporates computer science, modeling, statistics, analytics, and mathematics. There is a growing demand and shortage of data scientists across many industries as organizations face challenges in organizing large amounts of data but most companies are not seeing significant value from their data science efforts yet.
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Ian Swanson Keynote
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- 2. DATA SCIENCE IS… Datascience, also known as data-driven science, is an interdisciplinary field about scientific methods, processes, and systems to extract knowledge or insights from data in various forms, either structured or unstructured, similar to data mining. (Wikipedia) One way to consider data science is as an evolutionary step in interdisciplinary fields like business analysis that incorporate computer science, modeling, statistics, analytics, and mathematics. At its core, data science involves using automated methods to analyze massive amounts of data and to extract knowledge from them. (NYU) Drew Conway’s Venn diagram of data science
- 3. DATA SCIENCE IS…BEST JOB IN 2017? Organizations continue to face enormous challenges in organizing data The need for data scientists is no longer restricted to tech giants There’s a shortage of talent
- 4. DATA SCIENCE IS…EVERYWHERE Los Angeles New York Saudi Arabia Brazil Argen7na Canada Australia India South Korea United Kingdom France South Africa China
- 5. DATA SCIENCE IS…FOR EVERY INDUSTRY
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- 7. 99% of companiesthink data science is an important discipline to develop… STATE OF THE INDUSTRY yet only 22% of companies are seeing significant business value from data science
- 8. Tutorials Applied EventsEducation University+ Boot Camps Online Courses “How Tos” Kaggle & Experfy DataScience.com Elevate Big Data Day LA DATA SCIENCE IS… ACCESSIBLE
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