This document provides an introduction to data science, including:
- The large amounts of data being collected from sources like the web, financial transactions, and social networks.
- How "big data" refers to data that is expensive to manage and hard to extract value from due to its volume, velocity, and variety.
- What data scientists do, such as finding patterns and stories in data to help decision makers, and how data science draws from fields like computer science, mathematics, and statistics.