2015/01/21 by Yangyong Zhu, Zhu, Yangyong, Yun Xiong +1
Business, Management and Accounting · Decision Sciences · #Big Data and Business Intelligence #Big Data Technologies and Applications #Data Quality and Management
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1501.05039
Data science is gaining more and more and widespread attention, but no consensus viewpoint on what data science is has emerged. As a new science, its objects of study and scientific issues should not be covered by established sciences. Data in cyberspace have formed what we call datanature. In the present paper, data science is defined as the science of exploring datanature.