10 Questions
What is data science?
Data science is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses statistics, scientific computing, scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge and insights from noisy, structured, and unstructured data.
What does data science integrate domain knowledge from?
Data science integrates domain knowledge from the underlying application domain, such as natural sciences, information technology, and medicine.
How can data science be described?
Data science can be described as a science, a research paradigm, a research method, a discipline, a workflow, and a profession.
What does data science aim to understand and analyze?
Data science aims to understand and analyze actual phenomena with data.
How is data science different from computer science and information science?
Data science is different from computer science and information science, although it uses techniques and theories from these fields. It is a concept to unify statistics, data analysis, informatics, and their related methods.
What kind of variation do statisticians refer to?
variation in data
What do statisticians seek to express using numbers?
variation
Give an example of a group of numbers that does not have variation.
2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
How would you describe the distribution of the numbers 2, 1, 3, 3, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1?
not as easy to describe
What number best represents the distribution of the numbers 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2?
Two
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