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

IBM Big Data Hub

Areas making up the data science field include mining, statistics, data analytics, data modeling, machine learning modeling and programming. Ultimately, data science is used in defining new business problems that machine learning techniques and statistical analysis can then help solve.

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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Identification We now discuss formally the statistical problem of causal inference. We start by describing the problem using standard statistical notation. It should be noted that inverse probability weighting is not generally optimal (i.e., An excellent review of statistical learning methods may be found in Friedman et.

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Estimating the prevalence of rare events — theory and practice

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

This problem can be phrased as an optimization problem — given some fixed review capacity how should we sample videos? Of course, any mistakes by the reviewers would propagate to the accuracy of the metrics, and the metrics calculation should take into account human errors.

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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

He was saying this doesn’t belong just in statistics. It involved a lot of work with applied math, some depth in statistics and visualization, and also a lot of communication skills. The problems down in the mature bucket, those are optimizations, they aren’t showstoppers. I can point to the year 2001.