Data Science for Beginners.

An intro about Data Science

Posted by Admin on 2024-12-20 10:06:14

What is Data Science?

First of all, lets understand what is data? We live in a world that's drowning in data. In a more technical sense, data are a set of values of qualitative or quantitative variables about one or more persons or objects, while a datum is a single value of a single variable.

Data science and it can be defined as the methodology by which actionable insights can be inferred from data. It uses machine learning algorithms and models to analyze and process data.

Data science integrates the below 3 fields

  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Deep Learning

Types of data

We can divide Data into 2 groups

  • Categorical
    • Nominal
    • Ordinal
  • Numerical
    • Interval
    • Ratio

Applications Of Data science

Ever wondered how Spotify recommends music , Netflix suggest you contents or Flipkart/Amazon suggest products to buy? All these amazing companies have mastered the art of Data Science to increase sales, customer acquisition, marketing, customer retention, risk-management etc.

Major applications of Data science

  • E-commorce
    • Product recommendation
  • Banking and Fintech
    • Risk analysis & Fraud detection
  • Video Streaming
    • Movie recommendation
  • Search Engine
    • Personalised ads
  • Healthcare
    • Predictive analysis