Predictive analytics, deep learning, big data: they’re all buzzwords that surround this term we’ve settled on called data science. Data science has been called the crossroads of traditional computer science, statistics, and computer programming. To me, data science too often gets funneled into a simple application of a machine learning technique for binary classification purposes. If that means nothing to you, it just means classifying objects as a 0 (negative response) or 1 (positive response). That said, binary classification tasks are a huge facet of predictive modeling! Data science can encompass everything from a simple linear regression model, to computer vision, linguistic analysis, database structure, and even Van Gogh: