Data science concept

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Faculty of Arts, Cairo University

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Data science is one of the modern sciences, and it has grown and flourished very quickly in the past few years due to its association with many scientific fields on the one hand and its benefit from the successive developments in the field of information and communication technology on the other hand. This study seeks to introduce data science from multiple perspectives in order to derive a definition that represents the viewpoint of library and information science. The study dealt with data science history and development over about fifty years, as well as its value as a vital field at the present time, and its topics covering the life cycle of data, and its relationship with other fields.

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