Data Science: Nature and Pitfalls

TL;DR

This paper explores the fundamental nature of data science, highlighting its promising trends and significant challenges, especially focusing on understanding data and avoiding common pitfalls for healthy development.

Contribution

It provides a critical analysis of the core aspects of data science, emphasizing the importance of understanding data nature and identifying pitfalls to guide future research and practice.

Findings

Identifies key challenges and controversies in data science.

Highlights the importance of understanding data characteristics.

Discusses potential pitfalls to avoid in data science development.

Abstract

Data science is creating very exciting trends as well as significant controversy. A critical matter for the healthy development of data science in its early stages is to deeply understand the nature of data and data science, and to discuss the various pitfalls. These important issues motivate the discussions in this article.