Data Science: Use with (Great) Care
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Database Systems Lab, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012, Karnataka
Jayant R. Haritsa
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https://doi.org/10.17821/srels/2021/v58i3/163889Keywords:
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Data Science has become the buzz word in recent years. While it has the potential for solving challenging problems, Data Science is subject to methodological abuse. This note highlights the good, bad, and ugly of Data science. A few illustrations are used as examples to highlight how Data could be abused.
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