
The Birth of Urban Data Science
There has been an explosion of interests in data science over the past several years. Indeed, data scientist has suddenly become the sexiest job. So, what is data science and what does data scientist do? And what does it mean to do "Urban" data science? In general, data science is a marriage between computer science and statistics. It's basically a statistician becoming a programmer; or a programmer becoming a statistician. The two fields were very close in the past, but the