Applied Data Science

What is data science? With the major technological advances of the last two decades, coupled in part with the internet explosion, a new breed of analysist has emerged. The exact role, background, and skill-set, of a data scientist are still in the process of being defined and it is likely that by the time you read this some of what we say will seem archaic. In very general terms, we view a data scientist as an individual who uses current computational techniques to analyze data. Now you mi...