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What is Data Science?
Data Science is the practice of turning data into decisions using statistics, programming and domain understanding.
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Data Science
By Glintr Editorial TeamReviewed by Glintr Learn ReviewersUpdated 5 min readArea: Machine Learning
Definition
Data Science combines statistics, programming and business context to extract insight from data. It covers cleaning, exploration, modelling and communication — often overlapping with Machine Learning and analytics.
Related Concepts
- Machine LearningMachine Learning is a branch of AI where systems learn patterns from data instead of following fixed rules.
- Artificial IntelligenceArtificial Intelligence is the field of building software systems that can perceive, reason, learn and generate content.
- AlgorithmAn algorithm is a step-by-step procedure that takes an input and produces an output.