Data Science: Interview with Kirk Borne, Principal Data Scientist, Booz Allen Hamilton

I have always worked with data, since high school, a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. Specifically, my background is astrophysics, with a Ph.D. in the subject. I performed astronomical data analysis, modeling, and simulation for 25 years, while also working on data repositories for space science satellite missions at NASA. I became very interested in the scientific discovery opportunities of very large datasets in the late 1990's, at which time I began my quest into machine learning, data mining, and data science. The motivation for me has always been discovery, from my early days until now.