February 2016

Systems and statistics: moving data science beyond machine learning

Byย Jordan Engbers, PhD fromย Desid Labs Inc. Data science focuses on applying statistical methods โ€” primarily machine learning algorithms โ€” to transform data resources, big or small, into data products that provide actionable insights. This near-complete reliance on statistical methods has led some to argue there is little difference between data science and statistics (but see

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