Steve Miller tackles this topic in a 2-part series at Information Management. Part 1 is a great overview of Data Science, drawing on data science thought leaders including Mike Driscoll, Drew Conway, David Champagne and Nathan Yau. Part 2 focuses on the relationship between Data Science and traditional Business Intelligence, summarizing the distinctions neatly in this table:
Be sure to check out the full articles in the link below.
Information Management (Steve Miller): Data Science Part 1, Part 2
Data Science is the methodology of extracting data, encoding data and understanding data for business intelligence use. It affects BI greatly.
Posted by: seoreseller | August 04, 2011 at 18:10
BI *isn't* relational. Much of the data resides "in" RDBMS, but the schemas used (star, snowflake, and the like) are about as anti-Codd as one can get. This mistaken idea is common, however.
Posted by: Robert Young | August 05, 2011 at 14:00