Introduction

Data Science can be applied in a wide range of fields, from medical sciences to finance, from logistics to marketing. There are several different ways for representing the patterns that can be discovered through Data Science, and each one dictates the kind of technique that can be used to infer the selected output structure from data. Mark Brunkhart, the Los Angeles Galaxy Data Scientist, pointed out that Data Science cannot take credit for wins: the team is the one who wins. Data Science Interdisciplinary science dealing with methods, tools, processes, algorithms and systems aimed to extract knowledge or insights from data in various forms, either structured or unstructured, in small or big amounts. The information and knowledge drawn from the data thanks to Data Science is the support for the basketball experts’ decisions, on whom the decision responsibility lies. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.