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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. Both data science and machine learning are used by data engineers and in almost every industry. The evolution of machine learning The start of machine learning, and the name itself, came about in the 1950s.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

Domino Data Lab

We find ways to improve machine learning so that it requires orders of magnitude more data, e.g., deep learning with neural networks. My read of that narrative arc is that some truly weird tensions showed up circa 2001: Arguably, it’s the heyday of DW+BI. Does machine learning change priorities? It’s a mess.

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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.