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Fundamentals of Data Mining

Data Science 101

Data mining is the process of discovering these patterns among the data and is therefore also known as Knowledge Discovery from Data (KDD). The patterns discovered after this step are interpreted using various visualization and reporting techniques and are made comprehensible for other team members to understand. Domain Knowledge.

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Using Empirical Bayes to approximate posteriors for large "black box" estimators

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

In the examples above, we might use our estimates to choose ads, decide whether to show a user images, or figure out which videos to recommend. These decisions are often business-critical, so it is essential for data scientists to understand and improve the regressions that inform them. The size and importance of these systems makes this hard.

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