Statistical Analysis and Data Mining: The ASA Data Science.
This is the reason I became a Data Scientist: A long time ago (well, not SO long) in a place far away (Rome, Italy) I used to attend an Italian classics studies high school. I was taught latin, greek, philosophy, literature, and very little mat.
The Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit (CSCU) is a professional service group that aims to strengthen research on campus by assisting scholars with using statistical methods in their research in the most optimal way. Our services are coordinated to provide statistical expertise to the entire Cornell community through consulting, teaching, and contract services.
Aczel and Sounderpandian (2002:15) say, “results from a good statistical analysis are always concise, often precise and useful.” In that light the collection, analysis and storage of statistical data on the educational system become very important to the school manager for the following reasons.
Data Science in Statistics Curricula: Preparing Students to “Think with Data” J. H ARDIN ,R.H OERL, Nicholas J. H ORTON ,D.N OLAN ,B.B AUMER ,O.H ALL -H OLT.
Data Science can be practically defined as the process by which we get extra information from data. When doing Data Science, what we’re really trying to do is explain what all of the data actually means in the real-world, beyond the numbers. To extract the information embedded in complex datasets, Data Scientists employ a number of tools and techniques including data exploration.
MIT’s Minor in Statistics and Data Science is available to MIT undergraduates from any major. Statistics is the science of making inferences and decisions under uncertainty. It is increasingly relevant in the modern world due to the widespread availability of and access to unprecedented amounts of data and computational resources.
Data analysis. This is the sort of work most people think of using Excel for, but dramatically juiced up. A data scientist will typically work with data sets that are too large to open in a typical spreadsheet program, and may even be too large to work with on a single computer. Data analysis is the realm of visualization (tables are for robots).