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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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Reclaiming the stories that algorithms tell

O'Reilly on Data

Under school district policy, each of Audrey’s eleven- and twelve-year old students is tested at least three times a year to determine his or her Lexile, a number between 200 and 1,700 that reflects how well the student can read. They test each student’s grasp of a particular sentence or paragraph—but not of a whole story.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 12

Domino Data Lab

He’s been out of Wolfram for a while and writing exquisite science books including Elements: A Visual Explanation of Every Known Atom in the Universe and Molecules: The Architecture of Everything. Consider the following timeline: 2001 – Physics grad students are getting hired in quantity by hedge funds to work on Wall St.

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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. And it works.