You have probably already heard about machine learning—it has become a buzzword associated with everything from utopian paradises where machine learning seems to be able to solve almost every problem in a day to scenarios where machine learning is associated with dire biases suppressing humans of all shades.
In reality, machine learning is a lot more basic—it’s one of many tools a data scientist has at her disposal (it actually has been around for decades; it has just recently become both a lot cheaper to buy powerful computers capable of running advanced machine ...
