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Data Science: Use with (Great) Care


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1 Database Systems Lab, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012, Karnataka, India
     

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Data Science has become the buzz word in recent years. While it has the potential for solving challenging problems, Data Science is subject to methodological abuse. This note highlights the good, bad, and ugly of Data science. A few illustrations are used as examples to highlight how Data could be abused.

Keywords

Data Science.
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About The Author

Jayant R. Haritsa
Database Systems Lab, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012, Karnataka
India


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Authors

Jayant R. Haritsa
Database Systems Lab, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012, Karnataka, India

Abstract


Data Science has become the buzz word in recent years. While it has the potential for solving challenging problems, Data Science is subject to methodological abuse. This note highlights the good, bad, and ugly of Data science. A few illustrations are used as examples to highlight how Data could be abused.

Keywords


Data Science.

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