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

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 12

Domino Data Lab

Latest in machine learning research centers rapidly expanding in Africa? then building machine learning models to recommend methods and potential collaborators to scientists. Meanwhile, many organizations also struggle with issues that are encountered only after machine learning models get deployed in production.

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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

A naïve way to solve this problem would be to compare the proportion of buyers between the exposed and unexposed groups, using a simple test for equality of means. Identification We now discuss formally the statistical problem of causal inference. We start by describing the problem using standard statistical notation.

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Data Science at The New York Times

Domino Data Lab

Wiggins advocated that data scientists find problems that impact the business; re-frame the problem as a machine learning (ML) task; execute on the ML task; and communicate the results back to the business in an impactful way. I still believe that data science is the craft of trying to apply machine learning to some real world problem.