Demystifying Data Science and All the Other Buzzwords

In the business world, data has become a big thing. You hear all sorts of buzzwords being thrown around left, right, and center. Things like big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, deep learning, and so on. This can get confusing, leaving you paralyzed as to what is the best technology to use and under what circumstances. In this chapter, we are going to demystify all these buzzwords, by taking a short stroll through the history of data science. You will understand how the history of data analysis gave birth to different schools of thought and disciplines, which have now all come together under the umbrella of the term data science.