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Data science vs. machine learning: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

Areas making up the data science field include mining, statistics, data analytics, data modeling, machine learning modeling and programming. Ultimately, data science is used in defining new business problems that machine learning techniques and statistical analysis can then help solve.

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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Identification We now discuss formally the statistical problem of causal inference. We start by describing the problem using standard statistical notation. The field of statistical machine learning provides a solution to this problem, allowing exploration of larger spaces. For a random sample of units, indexed by $i = 1.

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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

He was saying this doesn’t belong just in statistics. It involved a lot of work with applied math, some depth in statistics and visualization, and also a lot of communication skills. Greg Linden ‘s article about splitting the website on Amazon. You see these drivers involving risk and cost, but also opportunity.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 5

Domino Data Lab

What are the projected risks for companies that fall behind for internal training in data science? In terms of teaching and learning data science, Project Jupyter is probably the biggest news over the past decade – even though Jupyter’s origins go back to 2001! In business terms, why does this matter ? However, MOOCs have limitations.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 12

Domino Data Lab

Paco Nathan ‘s latest monthly article covers Sci Foo as well as why data science leaders should rethink hiring and training priorities for their data science teams. If you’ve never participated in a Foo event, check out this article by Scott Berkun. The probabilistic nature changes the risks and process required.

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Data Science at The New York Times

Domino Data Lab

In 2001, Bill Cleveland writes this article saying, “You are doing it wrong.” This was one of several such articles, but that’s another talk. Then we can drill down and say what are the individual articles that over-index for that group or for that topic. That is an example of a descriptive tool.