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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. Deployment.

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

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

References [1] Omkar Muralidharan, Amir Najmi "Second Order Calibration: A Simple Way To Get Approximate Posteriors" , Technical Report, Google, 2015. [2] Brendan McMahan et al, "Ad Click Prediction: a View from the Trenches" , Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2013. [3]

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