The Development of Data Science: Implications for Education, Employment, Research, and the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development

Fionn Murtagh, Keith Devlin

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Abstract

In Data Science, we are concerned with the integration of relevant sciences in observed and empirical contexts. This results in the unification of analytical methodologies, and of observed and empirical data contexts. Given the dynamic nature of convergence, the origins and many evolutions of the Data Science theme are described. The following are covered in this article: the rapidly growing post-graduate university course provisioning for Data Science; a preliminary study of employability requirements, and how past eminent work in the social sciences and other areas, certainly mathematics, can be of immediate and direct relevance and benefit for innovative methodology, and for facing and addressing the ethical aspect of Big Data analytics, relating to data aggregation and scale effects. Associated also with Data Science is how direct and indirect outcomes and consequences of Data Science include decision support and policy making, and both qualitative as well as quantitative outcomes. For such reasons, the importance is noted of how Data Science builds collaboratively on other domains, potentially with innovative methodologies and practice. Further sections point towards some of the most major current research issues
Original languageEnglish
Article number14
Pages (from-to)1-16
Number of pages16
JournalBig Data and Cognitive Computing
Volume2
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Jun 2018

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