Background

Background

Data science also known as data-driven science, is an interdisciplinary field about scientific methods, processes and systems to extract knowledge or insights from data in various forms

Background of Society for Data Science (S4DS)


Founded in 2017, the Society for Data Science has been growing quickly.

Data Science is the discipline of extracting insights and analytics from data. It is broadly used to describe Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Analytics. Job postings in this discipline have increased multi-fold in the last 5 years and Data Scientists in India are in short supply.

More than 2.7 zetta-bytes of data exist in today’s digital universe, and that is projected to grow to 180 zetta-bytes in 2025

Data-Driven Science

Data science, also known as data-driven science, is an interdisciplinary field about scientific methods, processes, and systems to extract knowledge or insights from data in various forms, either structured or unstructured.

Data Science is a field that encompasses anything related to data acquisition, data cleansing & transformation, preparation, and model building and analysis.

Data Science is an umbrella term for techniques used when trying to extract actionable insights and information from data.

It mainly combines statistics, mathematics, programming, problem-solving, capturing data in ingenious ways, the ability to look at things differently to find patterns, along with the activities of cleansing, preparing, and aligning the data.