Introduction

What is Data Science?

Before you can start learning how to use data science techniques and build machine learning solutions, it might be useful to start by defining what we mean by “data science”. In this course, we use the following definition:

Data Science is the exploration and quantitative analysis of all available structured and unstructured data to develop understanding, extract knowledge, and formulate actionable results.

So what does that actually mean?

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