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Eric Goh Ming Hui
5 min readMar 14, 2023

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How to start a Career in Data Science? Data Scientist, Data Analysis, Data Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer. What are they?

What is Data Science?

According to Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Madras, Data Science is a blend of Computer Science, Statistics, and Business.

Extracted from: https://ge.iitm.ac.in/I2MP/data-science/

Data science combines computer science, statistics, business to uncover insights in data. These insights can be used in decision making. In data science, we usually create application or softwares. You can know more about data science, data mining, text mining, data analysis and big data at:

http://edatascience.great-site.net/2023/03/07/what-are-they-data-science-data-mining-text-mining-data-analysis-big-data/

Why Data Science?

Have you ever wonder how your mobile phone suggests you the news to read? How can YouTube use the data in your mobile phone to suggest videos for you to watch? How can Lazada store suggests you the products? All these are data science at work in real time. Prediction models and classifications models trained using your mobile phone data is used to predict the news, videos and products.

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Eric Goh Ming Hui
Eric Goh Ming Hui

Written by Eric Goh Ming Hui

(G.Dip, M.Tech, eMBA) | Author of "Learn R for Applied Statistics" | Founder of SVBook Pte. Ltd. : http://svbook.great-site.net

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