This book appeals to the reader's desire to explore the world of data science in a manner that is not too technical and not too plain, but somewhere in between. This book targets this sweet spot and provides comprehensive yet brief explanations to concepts that might be otherwise misunderstood or easily ignored by the reader due to their inherent complexity.This book covers the very key and fundamental concepts towards systematically understanding data science by drawing a well-defined road map addressing each topic in such a way that every section of every chapter reinforces the concepts and information laid out in the previous chapters. The main focus of this book is to give the reader insight into the processes involved in data science projects and shed light onto some of the most common aspects of data science, including big data and how it impacts the world. This book attempts to build a solid foundation of the concepts pertaining to data science. It will prove to be the infrastructure that will lead you to one day become a data science expert. In short, this book has all the necessary information a beginner level data scientist would have along with setting up for future improvement by reinforcing this knowledge with the intermediate and expert level books of the data science series.