How is Data Science related to Machine learning?

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How is Data Science related to Machine learning?

Subham Tripathi

2022年1月8日 08:20

I went through this comparison of analytic disciplines and this perspective of machine learning, but I am not finding any answers on the following:

How is Data Science related to Machine learning?
How is it not related to Machine Learning?

Topic knowledge-base definitions machine-learning

Category Data Science

Ashwiniku918 · Accepted Answer · 2022年1月8日 08:20

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Ashwiniku918 answered at 2022年1月8日 08:20

The ML/DL often are subset of Data science as explained clearly below :

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IharS · Accepted Answer · 2015年5月24日 14:33

Data science is much broader concept than machine learning. It starts from simple data visualization and descriptive statistics to get insights, manipulations like cleansing to prepare data. Before you can use some ML algorithms.

Basically such huge stacks as bigdata, visualization and data preprocessing are out of machine learning scope. And they are all integral parts of "Data Science".

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Nitesh · Accepted Answer · 2015年5月22日 22:22

Data Science is, as others have noted, a much broader term than machine learning. Applying Machine learning techniques is one aspect of data science. Data Science, more generally, is the science of deriving knowledge from data. The term was coined back in 1960 and kept evolving to describe the flow and interplay of problem definition, data collection, data transformation, data modeling/ analysis, and decision making. So to answer your question specifically:

Machine learning aids data science by providing a suit of algorithms for data modeling/ analysis (through training of machine learning algorithms), decision making (through streaming, online learning, real-time testing that are all topics that come under machine learning), and even data preparation (machine learning algorithms automatically detect anomalies in the data).
Data Science stitches together a bunch of ideas/ algorithms drawn from machine learning to create a solution and in doing so borrows a lot of ideas from traditional statistics, domain expertise and basic mathematics. In this way, data science is the process of solving a use case, providing a solution as opposed to machine learning that is an important cog in that solution.

cdwoelk · Accepted Answer · 2015年5月21日 19:46

Machine Learning tries to create systems that can learn from data. As such it can be used in a wide variety of settings, for example to make robots learn to walk or train virtual agents to play video games.

Data science concerns itself with the extraction of knowledge from data. In order to do so it uses a bunch of different techniques from different disciplines. Machine learning includes some techniques that can be very useful for a data scientist such as deep learning, decision trees and different clustering algorithms. However, machine learning has more to offer than Data Science uses and Data Science does not solely rely on Machine Learning.

Ram · Accepted Answer · 2015年5月21日 19:29

Data science is much more broad. It's sort of a catch-all term that right now doesn't honestly have a very clear definition. But data-science includes all of the skills and techniques required to make sense of data which has high velocity (it's coming at you quickly), volume (there's a lot of it), or variability (it's messy, like natural language processing). This means that it certainly includes machine learning and AI, but that it's also about the tools one might use in a real-world situation such as SQL, Hadoop or Spark (and related information such as a knowledge of parallel programming). Additionally, data science may or may not include the communication aspect such as making good graphs and using Excel.

Basically, Data Science is ML+.

How is Data Science related to Machine learning?

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