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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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Self-Service BI vs Traditional BI: What’s Next?

Alation

The request model started to fray. As Business Objects founder Bernard Liautaud notes in e-Business Intelligence: Turning Information Into Knowledge Into Profit (McGraw-Hill, 2001), the lack of ad hoc data access causes IT staff to drown in requests. Subscribe to Alation's Blog. appeared first on Alation.

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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 choice of space $cal F$ (sometimes called the model ) and loss function $L$ explicitly defines the estimation problem. For a random sample of units, indexed by $i = 1.

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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

This blog post provides a concise session summary, a video, and a written transcript. how “the business executives who are seeing the value of data science and being model-informed, they are the ones who are doubling down on their bets now, and they’re investing a lot more money.” Session Summary. Transcript.

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Estimating the prevalence of rare events — theory and practice

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

But importance sampling in statistics is a variance reduction technique to improve the inference of the rate of rare events, and it seems natural to apply it to our prevalence estimation problem. 2] Lawrence Brown, Tony Cai, Anirban DasGupta (2001). Statistical Science. Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research, 2010. [4]

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 5

Domino Data Lab

And my favorite topic: what are some of the best books, blogs, podcasts, etc., Also, clearly there’s no “one size fits all” educational model for data science. The Berkeley model addresses large university needs in the US. What are the projected risks for companies that fall behind for internal training in data science?