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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? This post will dive deeper into the nuances of each field. What is machine learning?

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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.