What is Data Science?

As an interdisciplinary field, Data Science draws from a diverse set of foundational disciplines such as Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Sciences, Physics, and domain expertise. Data Scientists face a wide range of challenges, from data wrangling to visualization to sophisticated modeling, and often must synthesize solutions by drawing on knowledge from a wide variety of sources. Not only the problem but also the tools are changing at an ever accelerating pace. The field of Data Science has experienced a remarkable emergence and growth in recent years, propelled by the increasing availability of vast amounts of data and the need to extract valuable insights from it.