A Translation Project Report Of Data Science For Business -What You Need To Know About Data Mining And Data-analytic Thinking(Chapter One) By Foster Provost And Tom Fawcett

This is a translation report based on Chapter One of Data Science for Business – What You Need to Know About Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking, a scientific book coauthored by Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, two famous data scientists in America. With lots of detailed cases, the book systematically introduces data science, telling the readers the meaning and value of data science. Outlining the main contents of the whole book, Chapter One is of high value to systematically learn data science.Data science plays an important role in propelling the development of science and technology, economy and national power of China. Therefore, the author of the translation project report chooses the original text to probe into the achievement in data science abroad and raise his translation level. The translation project is of certain difficulties. Firstly, the difficulties lie in the linguistic level, including frequent use of long sentences and specialized terms, which makes the source text difficult to understand. Besides, the lack of specialized background knowledge is another difficulty. In the whole translation process, the translator uses translation methods like conversion, division, etc. under the guidance of Reiss’ s text typology theory.