Data science, in basic understanding, is the place where voluminous data meet insights. At present, roughly around 2.5 Quintilian bytes of data is generated everyday. This data is of little significance until we can extract meaningful information from them. The insights drawn from the data available, can be leveraged to make informed decisions. Image created using wordcloud2 package in R Few varied applications of data science are - 1. Companies analyzing the customer data to understand market preferences 2. Bank drawing insights from customer transactions to understand probability of churn 3. Teams analyzing the players statistics to improve team dynamics 4. Google making use of data science technology to deliver best search results 5. E-commerce websites making use of recommender systems to attract customers 6. Facebook making use of face recognition algorithm to enable 'tag your friend' feature and many more The data available in the ecosyste...