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Data Science and Your Business

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Building an Effective Data Science Practice

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Having understood the data science process and what it entails, we now delve into the business-fitment considerations of data science.

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  1. 1.

    Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) is widely adopted by industries for monitoring and controlling devices.

  2. 2.

    Part 4 of this book covers the skills, roles, and typical structure in a data science team.

  3. 3.

    Refer to Karamshuk (2013) for a detailed example, where mobility factors were based on Foursquare check-in data.

  4. 4.

    For an example model, refer to Jeremy Curuksu, “Developing a business strategy by combining machine learning with sensitivity analysis,” https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/developing-a-business-strategy-by-combining-machine-learning-with-sensitivity-analysis/, November 13, 2019.

  5. 5.

    We shall cover this crucial aspect in more detail over Chapters 16, 20, and 23.

  6. 6.

    Also referred to as data wrangling, munging, and other colorful terms.

  7. 7.

    We will look at the skills framework of a data science team in Chapter 21.

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Raina, V., Krishnamurthy, S. (2022). Data Science and Your Business. In: Building an Effective Data Science Practice. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7419-4_2

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