From the course: Data Science Foundations: Fundamentals

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The data science Venn diagram revisited

The data science Venn diagram revisited

From the course: Data Science Foundations: Fundamentals

The data science Venn diagram revisited

- [Instructor] Sometimes, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and you can see this in a lot of different places. Take for instance, music. You take John, and Paul, and George, and Ringo, all wonderful musicians in their own rights. But put them together, and you have The Beatles and you have revolutionized popular culture. Or take the fact that everybody has a circle of friends, and basically everybody has the internet now, and you have created social networks and you have revolutionized the computing world. Or in 2013, Drew Conway proposed the combination of hacking skills, that's computer programming, and math and statistics, and substantive or topical domain expertise, together give you data science, a new field that has revolutionized both the technology and the business world. And I want to talk a little more about why each of those three elements in the Venn diagram of data science are so important. First one, the hacking skills or computer programming. The reason…

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