The Great Mission of Data Science

Paulo C. Rios Jr.
2 min readMar 26, 2021

Information Technology (IT) was meant to bring incredible advances to businesses, to health care and to the society as a whole. But those lofty goals have never been truly met. Most businesses see IT as just a mandatory cost source, while health care finds it largely burdensome and society perceives it as startling disruptive. In contrast, Data Science is in its essence transformative and has the power to make a new revolution in how technology can foster ourselves and what we do.

One of the key features of a successful Data Science project is its chosen target. It must be an essential and core goal. Because Data Science is always strategical. Now we have the unique opportunity to attack our central motives.

Data Science is deeply essential

Sustained and inspirited by its deep nature, Data Science can meet challenging tasks such as

  • finding new treatments and reducing costs in health care,
  • improving policy in public health,
  • discovering more efficient and affordable means in businesses,
  • assessing philanthropic program outcomes based on the composition of a program’s design
  • enhancing manufacturing processes,
  • re-targeting marketing efforts for increased efficiency.

In each one of them, Data Science can play a transformative role in that not only can it

  • increase efficiency,
  • find better health treatments and policies,
  • prevent diseases,
  • reduce operational costs,
  • show new and better ways,

but also bring in return a new and better direction for the applications of technology.

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