What is Data Science?

You probably hear the word “Data Science”
on a regular basis. But what exactly is data science? And why are we
hearing so much about it now?

First let us understand why data science is needed.

The need for Data Science

In this era
of smartphones and internet, we have seen an exponential increase in
data. More and more data is produced everyday as the number of people
using internet is increasing. This led to the problem of storing the
enormous amount of data. Frameworks like Hadoop and others solved the
problem of storing the data. But what about processing this data? The
previous techniques can no longer be used efficiently as they were built
of processing on smaller data.This is where Data Science comes into the picture.

What is Data Science?

The formal definition of Data Science goes as follows: “Data
scienceis an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods,