20 Core Data Science Concepts for Beginners - KDnuggets

Just as the name implies, data science is a branch of science that applies the scientific method to data with the goal of studying the relationships between different features and drawing out meaningful conclusions based on these relationships. Data is, therefore, the key component in data science. A dataset is a particular instance of data that is used for analysis or model building at any given time. A dataset comes in different flavors such as numerical data, categorical data, text data, image data, voice data, and video data. A dataset could be static (not changing) or dynamic (changes with time, for example, stock prices).