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

Alation

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. At Alation, we believe self-service has three unique stakeholders: End users trying to discover data for decision making.

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

IBM Big Data Hub

The term data science was first used in the 1960s when it was interchangeable with the phrase “computer science.” ” “Data science” was first used as an independent discipline in 2001. Both data science and machine learning are used by data engineers and in almost every industry.

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

The problem with this approach is that in highly imbalanced sets it can easily lead to a situation where most of the data has to be discarded, and it has been firmly established that when it comes to machine learning data should not be easily thrown out (Banko and Brill, 2001; Halevy et al., References. link] Chawla, N.