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Data science

TagLast edit: Apr 12, 2022, 8:19 PM by Pablo

Data science is “an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data, and apply knowledge and actionable insights from data across a broad range of application domains.”[1]

Data science as a career

80,000 Hours’ shallow profile rates data science a “sometimes recommended” career, especially for skill-building and earning to give.[2]

Further reading

Duda, Roman (2015) Data science (for skill-building & earning to give), 80,000 Hours, June.

Related entries

public interest technology | software engineering | statistical methods

  1. ^

    Wikipedia (2012) Data science, Wikipedia, April 11 (updated 11 August 2021‎).

  2. ^

    Duda, Roman (2015) Data science (for skill-building & earning to give), 80,000 Hours, June.

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0 comments5 min readEA link

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2 comments7 min readEA link

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11 comments1 min readEA link

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5 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

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15 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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41 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

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39 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
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34 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

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21 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

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35 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

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63 points
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223 points
39 comments3 min readEA link

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29 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

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81 points
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2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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34 points
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103 points
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104 points
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53 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

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7 points
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10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(ourworldindata.org)

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102 points
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52 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

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3 comments5 min readEA link

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6 comments1 min readEA link
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0 comments4 min readEA link

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47 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

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29 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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206 points
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11 comments6 min readEA link

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79 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

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2 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

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21 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
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12 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

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4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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22 points
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111 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

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49 points
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15 points
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