Data science

The existence of Comet NEOWISE (here depicted as a series of red dots) was discovered by analyzing astronomical survey data acquired by a space telescope, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.

Data science is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses statistics, scientific computing, scientific methods, processing, scientific visualization, algorithms, coding (like Python, SQL, and R), and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge from potentially noisy, structured, or unstructured data. A data scientist is a professional who creates programming code and combines it with statistical knowledge to summarize data.

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