Analyze video game players' online behavior to make a game more engaging and profitable.
Help a coach make the right game decision by providing them with data about which play has the most chance of succeeding.
Inspire a new social media tool by looking at millions of interactions between mobile phone users.
Prevent a tragedy by looking for behavioral changes of a terrorist group to predict the time and place of a terrorist attack.
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Many aspects of peoples' daily lives can be summarized using data, from what is the most popular new video game to where people like to go for a summer vacation. Data scientists (sometimes called data analysts) are experts at organizing and analyzing large sets of data (often called "big data"). By doing this, data scientists make conclusions that help other people or companies. For example, data scientists could help a video game company make a more profitable video game based on players' online behaviors, or help a travel agency figure out what destinations they should make vacation packages for.
Data Scientist
In this video, Chevron Data Scientist Alena Crivello describes her use of analytics to find solutions to complex problems.
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