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

IBM Big Data Hub

While data science and machine learning are related, they are very different fields. In a nutshell, data science brings structure to big data while machine learning focuses on learning from the data itself. What is data science? One challenge in applying data science is to identify pertinent business issues.

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Modernize a legacy real-time analytics application with Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink

AWS Big Data

Organizations with legacy, on-premises, near-real-time analytics solutions typically rely on self-managed relational databases as their data store for analytics workloads. Near-real-time streaming analytics captures the value of operational data and metrics to provide new insights to create business opportunities.

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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

By IVAN DIAZ & JOSEPH KELLY Determining the causal effects of an action—which we call treatment—on an outcome of interest is at the heart of many data analysis efforts. To do this, you have a data set at the person level containing, among other variables, an indicator of ad exposure, and whether the person bought the truck.

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Reclaiming the stories that algorithms tell

O'Reilly on Data

Whether driven by my score, or by their own firsthand experience, the doctors sent me straight to the neonatal intensive care ward, where I spent my first few days. And yet a number or category label that describes a human life is not only machine-readable data. Numbers like that typically mean a baby needs help.

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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

Paco Nathan presented, “Data Science, Past & Future” , at Rev. At Rev’s “ Data Science, Past & Future” , Paco Nathan covered contextual insight into some common impactful themes over the decades that also provided a “lens” help data scientists, researchers, and leaders consider the future.

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

Further, imbalanced data exacerbates problems arising from the curse of dimensionality often found in such biological data. Insufficient training data in the minority class — In domains where data collection is expensive, a dataset containing 10,000 examples is typically considered to be fairly large. return synthetic.

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Agile Reporting for the Manufacturing Industry: 5 Tips for Success

Jet Global

In 2001, a group of software developers got together at a ski resort in the Wasatch mountains of Utah and drew up a document they called the “Agile Manifesto.” In the digital age, the amount of information driving demand forecasts has increased, and demand data has flowed faster and more efficiently than ever before. What Is Agile?