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Data Science foundation

Data science is an interdisciplinary field focused on extracting knowledge from data sets, which are typically large. The field encompasses analysis, preparing data for analysis, and presenting findings to inform high-level decisions in an organization. 

As such, it incorporates skills from computer science, mathematics, statistics, information visualization, graphic design, complex systems, communication and business. Statistician Nathan Yau, drawing on Ben Fry, also links data science to human-computer interaction: users should be able to intuitively control and explore data. 

In 2015, the American Statistical Association identified database management, statistics and machine learning, and distributed and parallel systems as the three emerging foundational professional communities
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