Why

Data Science?

September 22, 2015

Hello!
I am Ryan Swanstrom
Data Scientist and
Blogger
You can find me (just
about everywhere) at:
@ryanswanstrom

More About Ryan

Blogger at Data Science 101

Employed by large bank
PhD from SDSU
Guest Blogger
Influential On Twitter (for data science)
Thought Leader by UC Berkeley

1.

Data
Products
End Goal of Data Science

Data
Product
Any tool created with
the help of data to
make a more informed
decision

Examples

Dashboards
Spreadsheets (sometimes)
Emails (sometimes)
People You May Know
Movies to Watch
Many Others

2.

Data
Science
What is it?


Data Science is statistics on a Mac

@BigDataBorat
2013


Data Scientist (n.) - Person who is
better at statistics than any
software engineer and better at
software engineering than any
statistician.
@josh_wills
2012


A Data Scientist is a statistician
who lives in San Francisco

Unknown

Drew Conways Venn Diagram

http://drewconway.com/zia/2013/3/26/the-data-science-venn-diagram

Yanir Seroussi

http://yanirseroussi.com/2014/10/23/what-is-data-science/

Really, what is data science? According to NIST

Data science is the empirical synthesis of

actionable knowledge from raw data through
the complete data lifecycle process.

According to NIST Big Data Framework

Simpler Definition of Data Science

The creation of data products

Data Science Takes a Team

Similar to Sports
Specialization is important
One person cannot do it all

3.

BIG
DATA
Big Data Data Science

Three Vs of Big Data

Volume
Velocity
Variety


Data Science doesnt need big
data

Ryan Swanstrom
Sept. 22, 2015

4.

Data Science
Workflow
How to get there?

No Perfect Workflow

Question

Data
Preparation
& Cleaning
Analysis &
Modeling

Data
Product

5.

Data Science
Goals
Why do data science?

Get All Three

Descriptive
Predictive
Prescriptive

Thanks!
I am hoping for questions?
You can find me everywhere at:
@ryanswanstrom

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