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What is data science? Like any emerging field, it hasn’t been completely defined yet, but you know enough about it to be interested or else you wouldn’t be reading this book.
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
– Richard W. Hamming
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Skiena, S.S. (2017). What is Data Science?. In: The Data Science Design Manual. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55444-0_1
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