What data science and being a data scientist means to me by Monash Data Science https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me Share with other learners your definition, ideas or examples of what data science and being a data scientist means you. Get creative, share your example (as an image, drawing, video, a link to a website, and more. en-us 2019-10-24 02:19:31 UTC 2023-11-07 12:00:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f39b.png Article - Machine Learning, Big Data, and Your Family HistoryArticle - Machine Learning, Big Data, and Your Family History monashdatascience https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/401818456 Data science brings people together.]]> 2019-10-24 02:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/401818456 Article - Why rural areas can't catch a break on speedy broadband monashdatascience https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/401818828 Data science brings people together.]]> 2019-10-24 02:29:21 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/401818828 GSM tower monashdatascience https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/401819151 Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) - Data science brings people together.]]> 2019-10-24 02:30:29 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/401819151 https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/452772357 2020-03-02 05:17:05 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/452772357 Beware "Bad Science" matt154 https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/452772646 Data science for me is also about calling out "bad science" - it may be easy to find an apparent statistical relationship but that doesn't mean it is meaningful in the real world, or true, and of course correlation isn't equal to causation  (see https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations)

HBR also has an interesting piece on this: https://hbr.org/2015/06/beware-spurious-correlations


]]> 2020-03-02 05:18:38 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/452772646 Data Science in the fight against fake news drechsler_di https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/456156639 Fake news is a huge issue currently, with allegations that it was used as a tool for swaying the last US presidential election.  Fake news is described as an news article that is considered unreliable. Data science can be used to detect fake news. The link below explains how an algorithm can be created to detect unreliable news.

]]> 2020-03-07 04:36:18 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/456156639 A core aspect of data ethics is using data science appropriately [...] Data science presents new opportunities for identifying factors for answering important policy questions — factors which might be difficult for people to spot on their own. It offers huge public benefits in creating better evidence-based policy and in making government operations more targeted and efficient. However, we must carefully consider the social implications of the data and algorithms used, our practices and the quality assurance processes we follow to ensure this is done well. https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/456220045 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-ethics-framework/data-ethics-framework

]]> 2020-03-07 13:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/456220045 Give visibility and understanding of complex data (that can be replicated) https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/456621861 2020-03-09 01:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/456621861 Data science pursues the future seanmasakicaughey https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/658014618 My definition of data science is about understanding the past, present, and predicting the future of a certain data set. This applies to pretty much any field that exists. Data scientists serve as the backbone of a business and a trigger to drive the business to the next phase. The image below shows the top selling titles under the nintendo switch console. This is one of many examples of summarising data to draw forth decisions for the future. More about nintendo's report can be seen here at https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2020/200507_3e.pdf.]]> 2020-07-20 01:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/658014618 Data scientists are translators https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/659233716 Translating data sets into relevant and easy to understand pieces of information. Just like any translator, proficiency in two languages is required - you need to be able to speak the same language as the business (to get your information across) and technical skills in a programming language is required.]]> 2020-07-21 13:46:49 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/659233716 Being a data scientist to me means ... dkabahinda44 https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/661290598 2020-07-23 19:43:12 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/661290598 DATA SCIENTIST TO ME IS someone who is able dkabahinda44 https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/661291367 to simplify complicated data into diffferent ways that others can understand - visually/written

]]> 2020-07-23 19:44:39 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/661291367 Seeing the forest AND the trees https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/662507873 Effective data science practice to me is being able to distill the big picture of a problem, but also efficiently and confidently identify the factors that are driving the big picture to inform decision making.]]> 2020-07-25 23:25:57 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/662507873 Business of People https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/662577301 Data science to me allows complex problems to be visually displayed and simplified to allow for accurate and decisive decision making.

It creates a low point of entry to allow for a variety of stakeholders to understand the business problem and work together to influence change and make an impact.

'If you fail to plan, you plan to fail' data science is preparing your business case, asking business questions to ensure you can approach clients with a plan which is actionable and easily implemented.

To me, data science is about enhancing the business of people approach, humanizing a situation, removing barriers, having meaningful discussions, and working together to generate positive outcomes.]]> 2020-07-26 04:46:09 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/662577301 Making sense of the 'random' https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/770473188 Data science to me allows for finding order and sense out of the random and abstract. ]]> 2020-09-23 01:01:12 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/770473188 Data science is all about finding interesting insights using the sometimes overwhelming amount of data we have at our finger tips today https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/1256552022 2021-03-02 04:31:15 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/1256552022 Finding Relationships https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/1257672701 Data science to me offers us a way of finding relationships in a data set that are beyond the expectation. A data scientist can be a detective to a dataset, searching out clues in the statistical relationships that owners of the data wouldnt assume to be true, but can only be brought to life with data science.]]> 2021-03-02 10:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/1257672701 Data science https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/1680086609 Data science allows us to take large amounts of information, find patterns to help us understand what is going on, and then share that information with people who would not understand it otherwise]]> 2021-08-16 07:16:45 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/1680086609 Data Scientists are Leaders https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/1680221812 Data scientists are leaders in better decision making. Data scientists are able to extract information and present it in a way that is accessible to other great thinkers, leaders and people with power. The information they are able to glean from behaviours and patterns allows decisions to be made that have basis in evidence and reason. They allow guess work to be minimised and faster progress to be made. They are leaders and drivers in decision making that has the power to change to world, and has in fact done so in so many ways.]]> 2021-08-16 09:58:34 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/1680221812 “Without “big data”, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.” by Geoffrey Moore https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/1680530749 Thus, data science for me is like glasses on the face and head light on the car. With great tool, you can make decision more precisely and accurately. ]]> 2021-08-16 14:46:08 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/1680530749 Data science is a delicious buffet https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/1680543419 The work of data scientists can enable ANYONE to interact with data.  Data scientists can do all the data processing etc, then create a web-based interactive dashboard which allows interested parties to interrogate that data in a way that they couldn’t have done before. The underlying dataset can remain hidden if desired (sometimes important) but users can perform their own analyses using the tools provided within the dashboard.

In my own area of work, we have for decades provided data summaries for interested parties; these have tended to be published monthly and annually. For practical reasons we can only show limited numbers of graphs, for example, as the reports are published as PDFs (and of course in times past were printed and mailed to people!). Nowadays we can provide data portals so if people have an interest in a particular area they can zoom in, or if they want to compare two monitoring locations they now have that ability. The Internet is fundamental to this change from ‘pre-packaged take-it-or-leave-it analysis’ to ‘buffet-style pick-what-you-like analysis’.

]]> 2021-08-16 14:53:26 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/1680543419 Data science is a delicious buffet Emily333Emily444Emily https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/1680552957 The work of data scientists can enable ANYONE to interact with data.  Data scientists can do all the data processing etc, then create a web-based interactive dashboard which allows interested parties to interrogate that data in a way that they couldn’t have done before. The underlying dataset can remain hidden if desired (sometimes important) but users can perform their own analyses using the tools provided within the dashboard.

In my own area of work, we have for decades provided data summaries for interested parties; these have tended to be published monthly and annually. For practical reasons we can only show limited numbers of graphs, for example, as the reports are published as PDFs (and of course in times past were printed and mailed to people!). Nowadays we can provide data portals so if people have an interest in a particular area they can zoom in, or if they want to compare two monitoring locations they now have that ability. The Internet is fundamental to this change from ‘pre-packaged take-it-or-leave-it analysis’ to ‘buffet-style pick-what-you-like analysis’.

]]> 2021-08-16 14:59:24 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/1680552957 Data Detectives joshuacummins89 https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/1684019843 Data Scientist are information detective that analysis and interpret data to better understand patterns and trends. Using all available resources they plot and across check information for validity and relevance to come to calculated conclusions.  These detectives are so good at uncoding historical and present data that they can create solutions to future problems before they arise.]]> 2021-08-18 12:56:40 UTC https://padlet.com/monashdatascience/what_data_science_means_to_me/wish/1684019843