by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After a few years, I think I understand the essence of Data Science. It isn’t that complicated.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I have been working in, around, above, below, to the side, and every which way but loose of Data Science for the past few years. Perhaps I have learned what Data Science is. There are many forms and formats and disagreements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here goes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Person A: I work with computers. People give me things everyday. It takes me hours and hours to do things with what people give me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Person B: Hmmm. Can I watch?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Person A: Sure, just don’t make much noise, I have to concentrate on these things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Person B silently watches for a few days, goes away for a day, comes back.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Person A: Oh, did you go somewhere? I thought it was quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Person B: Yes, I have some hardware and software, a.k.a., computing, that you might want to use. I think you can do those things you do in minutes instead of hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Person A: Hmmm. Well, what’s the harm, let’s try it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A few minutes later.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Person A: I’m done. That only took minutes. I like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Person B: silence<\/p>\n\n\n\n Person A: You can go away now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Person B just did Data Science. Person A is now using Data Science. Those people who give things to Person A are happier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This isn’t very complex. Perhaps the things Person B did were very complex. They could have been artificially intelligent or a cool trick with Excel or ten lines of Python.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Doesn’t matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That was Data Science.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips After a few years, I think I understand the essence of Data Science. It isn’t that complicated. I have been working in, around, above, below, to the side, and every which way but loose of Data Science for the past few years. Perhaps I have learned what Data Science is. There are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[372],"class_list":["post-3256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-science","tag-data-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3258,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions\/3258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}