We are drowning in a veritable sea of data. In today’s technology-driven society, we generate and consume data at a staggering rate. Almost any decision we can imagine involves data, and lots of it: looking up a restaurant or product review, detecting anomalies in telescopic data, evaluating patient adherence to prescription drugs, or analyzing the behavior of customers to loss-leader products embedded in Q3 earnings for a major retailer. Data science can do this and much, much more.
Data science is a rapidly growing field that offers the background necessary to tackle those questions and more. It offers an exciting blend of statistical inquiry, analysis, and interpretation, combined with computational processing and algorithmic techniques to leverage domain-specific data into actionable and well-informed decision-making.
