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Gentlest introduction : Data Science

Why Data Science?

We want to be an AI driven organisation but in order for that we need to be a data driven organisation.

  • It helps make better decisions (Scientific Method)
  • It helps with making smarter products
  • Automating Manual Methods
This is the process of converting data to knowledge. Common sources of data being big data database systems like Spark, MongoDB and Excel.

Process of turning your organisation to a data driven organisation

  1. Find a question
  2. Collect Data
  3. Process (munch) the data
  4. Create a model
  5. Evaluate the model
  6. Deploy
  7. Repeat (if necesary)
Key components for a data driven organisation

  1. Strategy
  2. People
  3. Data
  4. Technology
  5. Culture
The data science hierarchy of needs 


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