Love The Motivation Behind This Book

I really like this para – The Motivation Behind the Book Doing Data Science:

The world is opening up with possibilities for people who are quantitatively minded and interested in putting their brains to work to solve the world’s problems. I consider it my goal to help these students to become critical thinkers, creative solvers of problems (even those that have not yet been identified), and curious question askers. While I myself may never build a mathematical model that is a piece of the cure for cancer, or identifies the underlying mystery of autism, or that prevents terrorist attacks, I like to think that I’m doing my part by teaching students who might one day do these things. And by writing this book, I’m expanding my reach to an even wider audience of data scientists who I hope will be inspired by this book, or learn tools in it, to make the world better and not worse.

The solutions to all the world’s problems may not lie in data and technology—and in fact, the mark of a good data scientist is someone who can identify problems that can be solved with data and is well-versed in the tools of modeling and code. But I do believe that interdisciplinary teams of people that include a data-savvy, quantitatively minded, coding-literate problem-solver (let’s call that person a “data scientist”) could go a long way.