Data is powerful. It helps us to create insight, build models, make predictions, and develop knowledge. Out of this new age of data comes a discipline to truly understand and utilize these data - ‘data science’. But what is data science?
Data is big, really big. By 2020, it is expected that there will be 1.7 MB of data, created every second for every person on the planet.
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