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Principles of Data Science

Data science involves using data to make analytical, data-driven decisions that can be acted upon quickly. It involves finding, acquiring, cleaning, understanding, and delivering value from data through an iterative process. This process includes data selection, preprocessing, transformation, data mining, and interpretation to extract insights from raw data. Standard processes like CRISP-DM provide guidelines for the data science methodology.

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Principles of Data Science

Data science involves using data to make analytical, data-driven decisions that can be acted upon quickly. It involves finding, acquiring, cleaning, understanding, and delivering value from data through an iterative process. This process includes data selection, preprocessing, transformation, data mining, and interpretation to extract insights from raw data. Standard processes like CRISP-DM provide guidelines for the data science methodology.

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Data Science Essentials

Principles of Data Science

Data science is about using data to make decisions that drive actions. The goal of data science is to use
data analytic thinking to:

Replace intuition with data driven analytical decisions


Transform raw data to valuable asset
Increase pace of action

Data science involves:

Finding data
Acquiring data
Cleaning and transforming data
Understanding relationships in data
Delivering value from data

The data science process includes the following activities:


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Data selection.
Preprocessing.
Transformation.
Data Mining.
Interpretation and evaluation.

It is an iterative process in which some, or all, steps may be repeated.


Some attempts to formalize the process include:

The Computing Community Consortium Big Data Whitepaper (2012).


(http://www.cra.org/ccc/files/docs/init/bigdatawhitepaper.pdf)

The Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) process (1997)


(http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/1230)

The Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) (2000)
(http://spss.ch/upload/1107356429_CrispDM1.0.pdf)

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