What is Data Science?

Let's Discuss first what is data? we can say data is any type of information may be stored or not but any type of information is known as data and the study of this data is known as data science. So It is the one-line answer to the question, What is Data Science?

What is Data Science? Data science is basically the study of data. The term data science is also defined by others in many forms like the size of data or some skills which are compulsory to be a data scientist but basically, data science is related to the study of data to extract meaningful information from the data.

When we deal with data we encounter many types of data which are maybe structured data(like in form of tables etc.) or unstructured data (from emails social media etc.) when we deal with this data we require different types of skills to deal with them efficiently here the terms statistics, programming skills, mathematics etc comes. 

At present time we have a vast amount of data coming from different sources every second like emails, social media, log files, patent information, sports data, sensor information, security cameras, etc this huge amount of data leads to the term big data.

 Present Scenario of Data Science

At present time the data science is a very popular term because we have a huge amount of data and we have the huge computing power and efficient algorithms to deal with them but most of the companies don't know how to deal with data effectively and they pay a huge amount to persons who are aware from the topic Data science. To be a data scientist essential skills are curiosity, extremely argumentative and judgmental, and also proficient in some tools to deal with data effectively.