What is Data Science?

In our final lecture of the course, we’ll take a look back at what we’ve learned, understand the limitations of data, and present a perspective on data science as a whole.

Some slides

“Data Science” Revisited from Jeff Goldsmith.

Other materials

This is mostly a reprisal of previous materials, but worth mentioning and re-reading:

Jeff Leek’s problem forward blog post
Chris Volinsky’s “How Industry Views Data Science Education in Statistics Departments”
Angela Bassa’s post on why Data Alone Isn’t Ground Truth is an excellent reminder about the importance of context in analyzing data