Navigating the landscape of data analysis

We are living in a digital world where our daily activities, government operations, and business operations generate huge amounts of data. The world’s data is growing at 20% each year, which means that every four years we are doubling the data. We are sitting on a huge mountain of data. Our day-to-day activities such as social media, entertainment, online learning, online business, and government activities add more data. Most organizations worldwide want to utilize and generate value from this data to make them healthier, more productive, more efficient, and more sustainable places. Mathematicians, statisticians, and computer engineers are developing statistical, data mining, machine learning, natural language, and image processing applications for generating insights and faster decision-making.

Data analysis is an interdisciplinary field that comprises statistical and computing fundamentals for powerful decision-making for individual...