Introduction to
Data Science
Md Abul Kalam Azad
Professor
Dept. Computer Science and Engineering
Jahangirnagar University
Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh
Outline
Data, Big Data and their Challenges
Data Science
Introduction
Why Data Science
Data Scientists
What do they do?
Major/Concentration in Data Science
What courses do we take
Data All Around
Lots of data is being collected
and warehoused
Web data, e-commerce
Financial transactions, bank/credit
transactions
Online trading and purchasing
Social Network
How Much Data Do We have?
Google processes 20 PB a day (2008)
Facebook has 60 TB of daily logs
eBay has 6.5 PB of user data + 50 TB/day
(5/2009)
1000 genomes project: 200 TB
Cost of 1 TB of disk: $35
Time to read 1 TB disk: 3 hrs
(100 MB/s)
Big Data
Big Data is any data that is expensive to manage
and hard to extract value from
Volume
The size of data
Velocity
The latency of data processing relative to the
growing demand for interactivity
Variety and Complexity
The diversity of sources, formats, quality, structures.
Big Data
Types of Data We Have
Relational Data
(Tables/Transaction/Legacy Data)
Text Data (Web)
Semi-structured Data (XML)
Graph Data
Social Network, Semantic Web (RDF), …
Streaming Data
What To Do with These Data?
Aggregation and Statistics
Data warehousing and OLAP
Indexing, Searching, and Querying
Keyword based search
Pattern matching (XML/RDF)
Knowledge discovery
Data Mining
Statistical Modeling
Big Data and Data Science
“… the most attractive job in the next 10 years will
be statisticians,” Hal Varian, Google Chief Economist
The U.S. will need 140,000 - 190,000 predictive
analysts and 1.5 million managers/analysts by 2018.
McKinsey Global Institute’s June 2011
New Data Science institutes being created or
repurposed – NYU, Columbia, Washington, UCB,...
New degree programs, courses, boot-camps:
e.g., at Berkeley: Stats, I-School, CS, Astronomy…
One proposal (elsewhere) for an MS in “Big Data Science”
What is Data Science?
An area that manages, manipulates,
extracts, and interprets knowledge from
tremendous amount of data
Data science is a multidisciplinary field of
study with goal to address the challenges
in big data
Data science principles apply to all data –
big and small
https://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century/
What is Data Science?
Theories and techniques from many fields and
disciplines are used to investigate and analyze a
large amount of data to help decision makers in
many industries such as science, engineering,
economics, politics, finance, and education
Computer Science
Pattern recognition, visualization, data warehousing, High
performance computing, Databases, AI
Mathematics
Mathematical Modeling
Statistics
Statistical and Stochastic modeling, Probability.
Why is it so Attractive?
Gartner’s 2014 Hype Cycle
Data Science
Data Science
Real Life Examples
Companies learn your secrets, shopping
patterns, and preferences
For example, can we know if a woman is
pregnant, even if she doesn’t want us to
know? Target case study
Data Science and Election (2008, 2012)
1 million people installed the Obama
Facebook app that gave access to info on
“friends”
Data Scientists
Data Scientist
The Hottest Job of the 21st Century
They find stories, extract knowledge. They
are not reporters
Data Scientists
Data scientists are the key to realizing the
opportunities presented by big data. They
bring structure to it, find compelling
patterns in it, and advise executives on
the implications for products, processes,
and decisions
What do Data Scientists do?
National Security
Cyber Security
Business Analytics
Engineering
Healthcare
And more ….
Concentration in Data Science
Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Applied Statistics/Data Analysis
Solid Programming Skills (R, Python, Julia, SQL)
Data Mining
Database Storage and Management
Machine Learning and Discovery
THANKS
