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What forms the data science discipline ?

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    Refer to Chap. 3 for more discussion about data science thinking.

  2. 2.

    Refer to Chap. 6 for more discussion about the relationship between data science and these disciplines.

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Cao, L. (2018). Data Science Discipline. In: Data Science Thinking. Data Analytics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95092-1_5

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