Respond to the following prompts in your initial post and reply to at least one of your peers' initial posts.

Based on your readings and videos, please give three reasons why data analytics has grown significantly as a field in recent years. In addition, please address two of the following questions in your response.

Why are the required textbooks in this class digital in nature and available for free?

What is the difference between a population and a sample? Why are we able to start analyzing populations?

Why do we need descriptive analysis and visualization?

What is the difference between unsupervised and supervised machine learning?

How do smart cities work?

How right have the writers of the Jetsons been with the future?