General

Question 1

What is Data Science?

Answer 1

Multi-disciplinary field that brings together concepts from computer science, statistics/machine learning, and data analysis to understand and extract insights from the ever-increasing amounts of data

Question 2

Two paradigms of data research

Answer 2

1. Hypothesis driven: given a problem, what kind of data do we need to help solve it?
2. Data driven: given some data, what interesting problems can be solved with it?

Question 3

What is at the heart of data science?

Answer 3

Always ask questions. Always be curious about the world

1. What can we learn from this data?
2. What actions can we take once we find whatever it is we are looking for?