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This chapter introduced data science as the field that comprises everything related to cleaning, preparing, and analyzing unstructured, semi structured, and structured data. This field of science uses a combination of statistics, mathematics, programming, problem-solving, and data capture to extract insights and information from data. Python provides powerful libraries and mechanisms for data science applications as demonstrated in the following sections.
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Embarak, O. (2018). Introduction to Data Science with Python. In: Data Analysis and Visualization Using Python. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4109-7_1
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