Introduction to Data Science with Python
Ossama H. Embarak · Apress eBooks · 2018
This chapter introduced data science as the field that comprises everything related to cleaning, preparing, and analyzing unstructured, semi structured, and structured data. This field of science uses a combination of statistics, mathematics, programming, problem-solving, and data capture to extract insights and information from data. Python provides powerful libraries and mechanisms for data science applications as demonstrated in the following sections.