What is Data Science?

Data Science for Business

Mari Nazary

VP Product & Learner Experience at the Lambda School

Let's ask Google!

Making data work for you

What can data do?

• Describe the current state of an organization or process
• Detect anomalous events
• Diagnose the causes of events and behaviors
• Predict future events

Why now?

Why now?

Why now?

The data science workflow

Data collection

Exploration and visualization

Experimentation and prediction

Let's practice!

Data Science for Business