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The Cyber Defense Review

The Cyber Data Science Process

By Major General John W. Baker, Dr. Steve Henderson | July 31, 2018

Our world is facing explosive growth in data being communicated on and generated by its people, their systems, and their networks. More data has been created in the past two years than in the entire previous history of mankind (Heidorn, 2016). By 2020, our digital universe of data will grow to 44 zettabytes (or 44 trillion gigabytes) which is ten times its size today. The enormity of this data and our ability to apply advanced technology to leverage it to gain new insights is often described as the era of “big data.” The study and application of big data spawned a new interdisciplinary field known as data science which combines the domains of operations, mathematics, and computer science as well as several ancillary fields such as social science, intelligence, and economics. The application of data science has already shown great promise in a wide range of fields from medicine to business.

The Cyber Data Science Process


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