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

IBM Big Data Hub

” “Data science” was first used as an independent discipline in 2001. Some examples of data science use cases include: An international bank uses ML-powered credit risk models to deliver faster loans over a mobile app. Both data science and machine learning are used by data engineers and in almost every industry.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

Domino Data Lab

This month’s article features updates from one of the early data conferences of the year, Strata Data Conference – which was held just last week in San Francisco. In particular, here’s my Strata SF talk “Overview of Data Governance” presented in article form. Welcome back to our monthly burst of themes and conferences.

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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

A naïve way to solve this problem would be to compare the proportion of buyers between the exposed and unexposed groups, using a simple test for equality of means. Choosing the tuning parameters for data-adaptive methods such as regression trees and MARS is the subject of a large number of research articles and books.

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

In this article we discuss why fitting models on imbalanced datasets is problematic, and how class imbalance is typically addressed. Their tests are performed using C4.5-generated This carries the risk of this modification performing worse than simpler approaches like majority under-sampling. Chawla et al., 1998) and others).

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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

A “data scientist” might build a multistage processing pipeline in Python, design a hypothesis test, perform a regression analysis over data samples with R, design and implement an algorithm in Hadoop, or communicate the results of our analyses to other members of the organization in a clear and concise fashion.