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What is Data Science? - Vicki Boykis

What is Data Science? - Vicki Boykis

FromTest and Code


What is Data Science? - Vicki Boykis

FromTest and Code

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Length:
31 minutes
Released:
Dec 10, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Data science, data engineering, data analysis, and machine learning are part of the recent massive growth of Python.
But really what is data science?
Vicki Boykis helps me understand questions like:
No really, what is data science?
What does a data pipeline look like?
What is it like to do data science, data analysis, data engineering?
Can you do analysis on a laptop?
How big does data have to be to be considered big?
What are the challenges in data science?
Does it make sense for software engineers to learn data engineering, data science, pipelines, etc?
How could someone start learning data science?
Also covered:
A type work (analysis) vs B type work (building)
data lakes and data swamps
predictive models
data cleaning
development vs experimentation
Jupyter Notebooks
Kaggle
ETL pipelines
I learned a lot about the broad field of data science from talking with Vicki.
Special Guest: Vicki Boykis.
Released:
Dec 10, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Test & Code is a weekly podcast hosted by Brian Okken. The show covers a wide array of topics including software engineering, development, testing, Python programming, and many related topics. When we get into the implementation specifics, that's usually Python, such as Python packaging, tox, pytest, and unittest. However, well over half of the topics are language agnostic, such as data science, DevOps, TDD, public speaking, mentoring, feature testing, NoSQL databases, end to end testing, automation, continuous integration, development methods, Selenium, the testing pyramid, and DevOps.