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What is data science?
What is data science?
- A type of empirical science focused on data-driven research
- A subset of information science dealing with unstructured data
- An interdisciplinary field using statistics and scientific computing to extract knowledge from data (correct)
- A branch of computer science focused on data analysis
How is data science different from computer science and information science?
How is data science different from computer science and information science?
- It focuses on understanding and analyzing actual phenomena with data
- It integrates domain knowledge from various application domains (correct)
- It is a research method and a profession
- It uses statistical knowledge combined with programming code
What did Turing Award winner Jim Gray imagine data science as?
What did Turing Award winner Jim Gray imagine data science as?
- A 'fourth paradigm' of science (correct)
- A subset of computational science
- An empirical science focused on data analysis
- A branch of theoretical science
What does a data scientist do?
What does a data scientist do?
How can data science be described?
How can data science be described?
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