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Therefore, this paper presents the necessity of
providing new digital tools and techniques in Data
Science, which gives researchers and religious educational
institutions a tremendous power in diagnosing and
analyzing the circumstances and needs of this age.
And even if we couldn’t immediately involve Data
Science in the religious curricular, since it needs to
prepare enough time to provide the necessary resources
and capabilities, but the educational institutions of
Quranic sciences can play today this role and develop the
research department, because this contributes to improve
their curriculums and carry out the priorities for
researchable topics that their students and researchers
work on.

Data Science: An Overview
By 2020, the number of connected devices in the internet
is expected to reach 60 billion, the equivalent of 6.58 per
person (this forecast is pretty conservative).
1
This development is known as the internet of things
(IoT), or what is now called internet of everything (IoE),
in which it is changing radically our lives. In view of this
increasing interaction between individuals and devices
components, there is a need for serious research trends
that can help specialists in every field, business sector or
subject of study to work on digital methods and tools to
extract all data available for analysis; Whether it is the
objective of a specific problem analysis to formulate
appropriate solutions, or develop predictions in order to
make strategies.

1. Cisco’s forecast, Entitled, “Number of connected objects expected
to reach 50bn by 2020”.