Statistics provides tools and methods to identify patterns and structures in data to provide a deeper insight into it. Serves a great role in data acquisition, exploration, analysis, and validation. It plays a really powerful role in Data Science.
Data Science is a derived field which is formed from the overlap of statistics probability and computer science. Whenever one needs to do estimations, statistics is involved. Many algorithms in data science are built on top of statistical formulae and processes. Hence statistics is an important part of data science.
