--- title: detail --- ## What is Data Science Data Science is a multi-disciplinary field that combines skills in software engineering and statistics with domain experience to support the end-to-end analysis of large and diverse data sets, ultimately uncovering value for an organization and then communicating that value to stakeholders as actionable results. ## Data Scientist Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician. ## What Skills Do You Need? Mathematics - Calculus, Linear Algebra Statistics - Hypothesis, Testing, Regression Programming - SQL, R/Python Machine Learning - Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, Model Fitting Business/Product Intuition - Interpret and communicate results to non-technical audience ## Life Cycle 1 - Identify or Formulate Problem 2 - Data Preparation 3 - Data Exploration 4 - Transform and Select 5 - Build Model 6 - Validate Model 7 - Deploy Model 8 - Evalute or Monitor Results