Chapter 2: Data Science

learning contents(points to be covered) are :

An Overview of Data Science

What are data and information

Data types and their representation

Data value Chain

Basic concepts of big data

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 Overview of Data Science

• What is data science, data , information and big data?

 data science is:-
 defined as a multi-disciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes,
algorithms, and systems in order to extract knowledge and insights from
structured, semi-structured and unstructured data.
 is much more than simply analyzing data.
 It offers a range of roles and requires a range of skills
 In case of academic discipline and profession, data science continues to evolve as
one of the most promising and in-demand career paths for skilled professionals. 2
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 Data professionals understand that they must advance past the traditional skills of
analyzing large amounts of data, data mining, and programming skills.
 Data scientists need to be curious and result-oriented, with exceptional industry-
specific knowledge and communication skills that allow them to explain highly
technical results to their non-technical counterparts.

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What are data and information

• what is Data and information ?

 Data can be defined as: - a representation of facts, figures, concepts, or
instructions in a formalized manner,

• which should be suitable for communication, interpretation, or

processing, by human or electronic machines.
 It can be described as unprocessed facts and figures.

 Is represented with the help of characters such as alphabets (A-Z, a-z), digits (0-
9) or special characters (+, -, /, *, <,>, =, etc.).

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 Information is defenied as :-
 the processed data on which decisions and actions are based.
 It is data that has been processed into a form that is meaningful to the recipient.
 or it is interpreted data; created from organized, structured, and processed data in
a particular context.

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 Data Processing Cycle
• Data processing is the re-structuring or re-ordering of data by people or machines
to increase their usefulness and add values for a particular purpose.
• Basic steps that are consisted in the data processing :-

I. input
II. processing and
III. output.
Data Processing Output

Question
1. Define the above terms(input, processing and output) and discuss the main
differences between data and information with examples ?
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 Data types and their representation
• Data types can be described from diverse perspectives. here some of the perspectives
are:-
i. Data types from Computer programming perspective:- different languages may use
different terminology for the notion of data types. Common data types include:
 Integers(int)- is used to store whole numbers, mathematically known as integers
• Booleans(bool)- is used to represent restricted to one of two values: true or false
• Characters(char)- is used to store a single character
• Floating-point numbers(float)- is used to store real numbers
• Alphanumeric strings(string)- used to store a combination of characters and numbers 7
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ii. Data types from Data Analytics perspective :- in terms of Analytic perspective there
are three common types of data types or structures. those are :
I. Structured Data:- is data that adheres to a pre-defined data model and
is therefore straightforward to analyze.
 It conforms to a tabular format with a relationship between the different rows
and columns.
 e.g Excel files or SQL databases (which has structured rows and columns that
can be sorted)
II. Semi-structured Data:- is a form of structured data that does not
conform with the formal structure of data models associated with
relational databases or other forms of data tables.
 It is also known as a self-describing structure. (why ?)
 e.g JSON , XML, sensor data
III. Unstructured data types :- is information that does not have either a 8
predefined data model or is not organized in a pre-defined manner.
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 Unstructured information is typically text-heavy but may contain data such as dates,
numbers, and facts as well.
 Do you think that understanding Unstructured data using traditional programs as
compared to data stored in structured databases easy?
 e.g Audio, video files or No_x0002_SQL databases

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iii. Metadata :- is simply defined as data about data.
 From a technical point of view, this is not a separate data structure, but it is one
of the most important elements for Big Data analysis and big data solutions.
 provides additional information about a specific set of data.
for example, In a set of photographs, it describe when and where the photos
were taken. and also it provides fields for dates and locations which, by
themselves, can be considered structured data.
Because of this reason, metadata is frequently used by Big Data solutions for
initial analysis.
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 Data value Chain
• It is introduced to describe the information flow within a big data system as a
series of steps needed to generate value and useful insights from data.
• The Big Data Value Chain identifies the following key high-level activities:

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 Data Acquisition :- is the process of gathering, filtering, and cleaning data before it
is put in a data warehouse or any other storage solution on which data analysis can be
carried out.
 is one of the major big data challenges in terms of infrastructure requirements. why
explain ?
 Data Analysis :- making the raw data acquired amenable to use in decision-making as
well as domain-specific usage.
 it involves exploring, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of highlighting
relevant data, synthesizing and extracting useful hidden information with high
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potential from a business point of view.
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 Data Curation :- It is the active management of data over its life cycle to ensure it meets
the necessary data quality requirements for its effective usage.
 it contains different activities such as content creation, selection, classification,

transformation, validation, and preservation.

 Data Storage :- is the persistence and management of data in a scalable way

that satisfies the needs of applications that require fast access to the data.
 Data Usage:- It covers the data-driven business activities that need access to
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 Basic concepts of big data
• Big data is the term for a collection of data sets so large and complex .
• it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data
processing applications.
• it is characterized by 3V and more:
 Volume: large amounts of data (Zeta bytes)
 Velocity: Data is live streaming or in motion
 Variety: data comes in many different forms from
diverse sources
 Veracity: can we trust the data? How accurate is it?

Figure 2 Characteristics of big data

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Clustered Computing and Hadoop Ecosystem

Clustered computing :-
• Big data clustering software combines the resources of many smaller machines,
seeking to provide a number of benefits:
 Resource Pooling:
 High Availability:
 Easy Scalability:

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 Hadoop and its Ecosystem

• Hadoop is an open-source framework intended to make interaction with big data easier.
 is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large datasets across
clusters of computers using simple programming models.
 characteristics of Hadoop are:-

i. Economical:- Its systems are highly economical.

ii. Reliable:- stores copies of the data on different machines and is resistant to
hardware failure.
iii. Scalable:- is easily scalable both, horizontally and vertically.
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• It comprises the following components and many others:
• Hadoop has an ecosystem that
 HDFS: Hadoop Distributed File System
has evolved from its four core
 YARN: Yet Another Resource Negotiator
components:
 MapReduce: Programming based Data Processing
 data management,  Spark: In-Memory data processing

 access,  PIG, HIVE: Query-based processing of data services

 HBase: NoSQL Database

 processing, and
 Mahout, Spark MLLib: Machine Learning algorithm
 storage.
libraries
 Solar, Lucene: Searching and Indexing

 Zookeeper: Managing cluster

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 Oozie: Job Scheduling
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 Big Data Life Cycle with Hadoop
• There are different stages of Big Data processing, some of them are:-

I. Ingesting data into the system :- data is ingested or transferred to Hadoop from
various sources such as relational databases, systems, or local files.
 Sqoop transfers data from RDBMS to HDFS, whereas Flume transfers event data.
II. Processing the data in storage:- the data is stored and processed.
 The data is stored in the distributed file system, HDFS, and the NoSQL distributed data,
HBase. Spark and MapReduce perform data processing.

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III. Computing and analyzing data:- data is analyzed by processing frameworks such
as Pig, Hive, and Impala.
 Pig converts the data using a map and reduce and then analyzes it.

 Hive is also based on the map and reduce programming and is most suitable for
structured data.
iv. Visualizing the results:- is performed by tools such as Hue and Cloudera Search.
 In this stage, the analyzed data can be accessed by users.

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