Data, data, data

ENVS615 | Dani Arribas-Bel

  • Why Data Science?
  • What is Data Science?

Why?

Data, data, data

Accidental data (Arribas-Bel, 2014)

  • Availability is a side effect
  • More data, more often, of more places
  • Different (shape, form, nature, quality…)

Lazer & Radford (2017)

  • Digital life (“the fraction of life [that is] intrinsically digitally mediated”)
  • Digital traces (“records that chronicle actions taken”)
  • Digitalized life (“nonintrinsically digital life […] in digital form”)

But…

Data, in itself, is not very useful… insights are

Data Science

What?

Tukey (1962)

Greater Data Science (Donoho, 2017)

  • GDS1: Data Gathering, Preparation, and Exploration
  • GDS2: Data Representation and Transformation
  • GDS3: Computing with Data
  • GDS4: Data Visualisation and Presentation
  • GDS5: Data Modeling
  • GDS6: Science about Data Science

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