Machine Learning in Java - Second Edition

Machine learning and data science

Nowadays, everyone talks about machine learning and data science. So, what exactly is machine learning, anyway? How does it relate to data science? These two terms are commonly confused, as they often employ the same methods and overlap significantly. Therefore, let's first clarify what they are. Josh Wills tweeted this:

"A data scientist is a person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician."

– Josh Wills

More specifically, data science encompasses the entire process of obtaining knowledge by integrating methods from statistics, computer science, and other fields to gain insight from data. In practice, data science encompasses an iterative ...