Notes

definitions of data science http://www.micfarris.com/2011/09/data-science-defined/ http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/06/what-is-data-science.html http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025160.do

Journal of Data Science http://www.jds-online.com/v1-1

EMC summit http://www.greenplum.com/datasciencesummit/

History of data science http://whatsthebigdata.com/2012/04/26/a-very-short-history-of-data-science/

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/departments/sia/doc/datascience.pdf

1974 Peter Naur, Concise Survey of Computer Methods

Course plan was presented at the IFIP Congress in 1968, titled “Datalogy, the science of data and of data processes and its place in education"

“The science of dealing with data, once they have been established, while the relation of the data to what they represent is delegated to other fields and sciences.”

2001: William Cleveland Bell Labs

(25%) Multidisciplinary Investigations: data analysis collaborations in a collection of subject matter areas. (20%) Models and Methods for Data: statistical models; methods of model building; methods of estimation and distribution based on probabilistic inference.
(15%) Computing with Data: hardware systems; software systems; computational algorithms. (15%) Pedagogy: curriculum planning and approaches to teaching for elementary school, secondary school, college, graduate school, continuing education, and corporate training. (5%) Tool Evaluation: surveys of tools in use in practice, surveys of perceived needs for new tools, and studies of the processes for developing new tools.

Key idea: extract information from large datasets and then present something of use to non-data experts

Ben] Fry… argues for an entirely new field that combines the skills and talents from often disjoint areas of expertise… [computer science; mathematics, statistics, and data mining; graphic design; infovis and human-computer interaction]

Jim Gray's laws of Data Engineering Go from working to working Start with 20 questions Scale-out Take the analysis to the data