The field guide to data science

THE FIELD GUI DE to D ATA SCIENCE © COPYRIGHT 2013 BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. FOREWORD›› Every aspect of our lives, from life-saving disease treatments, to national security, to economic stability and even the convenience of selecting a restaurant, can be improved by creating better data analytics through Data Science. We live in a world of incredible and responsibility such incredible beauty and complexity. A world data stewardship will demand of increasingly measured, mapped, us in the coming decades is hard and recorded into digital bits for to imagine but we often fail to eternity. Our human existence fully appreciate the insights data is pouring into the digital realm can provide us today. Businesses faster than ever. From global that do not rise to the occasion business operations to simple and garner insights from this new expressions of love an essential resource are destined for failure. part of humanity now exists in An essential part of human the digital world. nature is our insatiable curiosity and the need to fnd answers to Data is the byproduct of our our hardest problems. Today, the new digital existence.