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What are they? Data Science, Data Mining, Text Mining, Data Analysis, Big Data...

Eric Goh Ming Hui
6 min readMar 13, 2023

When you first go into data science, you will hear terminologies or words like data science, data mining, text mining, data analysis, and big data. What are they? They are confusing.

This article will describe on what is Data Science, Data Mining, Text Mining, Data Analysis, and Big Data and what are their differences.

The first part of this article will be on definitions of Data Science, Data Mining, Text Mining, Data Analysis, Big Data. The second part of this article will then look into Data Science vs Data Mining, Data Mining vs Text Mining, Data Mining vs Data Analysis, then Data Analysis vs Text Analysis. The third will be a conclusion.



Data Science Definition

According to Amazon, Data Science is the study of data to extract insights from data. It is a multidisciplinary field that combines statistics, computer science and business. The data science analysis helps data scientist to ask and answer questions like what happened (descriptive), why it happened, what will happened (predictive).

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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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