Data science is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses statistics,
scientific computing, scientific methods, processing, scientific
visualization, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge from
potentially noisy, structured, or unstructured data.
Data science also integrates domain knowledge from the underlying application
domain (e.g., natural sciences, information technology, and medicine). Data
science is multifaceted and can be described as a science, a research
paradigm, a research method, a discipline, a workflow, and a profession.
Data science is "a concept to unify statistics, data analysis, informatics,
and their related methods" to "understand and analyze actual phenomena" with
data.