From the course: Data Science and Analytics Career Paths and Certifications: First Steps
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Fundamentals
From the course: Data Science and Analytics Career Paths and Certifications: First Steps
Fundamentals
- [Tutor] Data science is a highly comprehensive term. It encompasses a multitude of disciplines and concepts. Including big data, machine learning, data mining, and data analytics. Big data is especially relevant to data science these days. Think of the sheer amount of data becoming available to various organizations and individuals today. As a result of this trend, data science has to increasingly deal with big data. Essentially, big data refers to a dataset whose nature, including its volume, variety, and velocity defies the conventional ways of processing and requires extraordinary treatment. Therefore, big data is a relative term. It is a moving target. One terabyte may be considered to be big today, but it may not be anymore in the near future as the storage and processing technologies become cheaper and faster. Machine learning frees humans from doing the mundane tasks of trying numerous possibilities of solving a…