What are some of the most interesting real-world applications of data science that you've come across?
How is data science being applied in our lives? (ELI5 please)
I have found Data science is a very broad term used to describe almost anything related to data, but if I was to explain it to my daughter I would be saying.
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There are criminals out there that get money from doing illegal things, (selling drugs etc), those people need to put their money in a bank to use it to buy things. Data science can be used by banks to find weird transaction behaviour and essentially those criminals.
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If you think about streaming services like Netflix, how do they know what show you would like? They basically find groups of ppl who have similar viewing patterns as you, and show you shows that your peers liked
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The last one I as this is likely just on the boarder of data science and comp sci, there are programs out there that can find out how much of what you have written has been plagiarised.
Real World Data Science Use Cases
Just saw this one posted in this sub I think:
Researchers used the instagram API to analyse human movement data for geographical boundaries/clustering — http://www.nature.com/articles/srep45823
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