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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Though you may encounter the terms “data science” and “data analytics” being used interchangeably in conversations or online, they refer to two distinctly different concepts. Meanwhile, data analytics is the act of examining datasets to extract value and find answers to specific questions.

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Data science vs. machine learning: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

While data science and machine learning are related, they are very different fields. In a nutshell, data science brings structure to big data while machine learning focuses on learning from the data itself. What is data science? This post will dive deeper into the nuances of each field.

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Getting ready for artificial general intelligence with examples

IBM Big Data Hub

Self-driving cars excel at navigating roads and supercomputers like IBM Watson ® can analyze vast amounts of data. Regardless, these are examples of narrow AI. Building an in-house team with AI, deep learning , machine learning (ML) and data science skills is a strategic move.

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Great Data Scientists Don’t Just Think Outside the Box, They Redefine the Box

Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC

For example, you want to use Deep Learning to estimate how much solar energy we could generate with solar panels on the Golden Gate Bridge (that probably wouldn’t be a very popular decision in San Francisco). For example:”. Figure 5: Using RNN’s to Identify Shapes and Patterns Buried in the Telemetry Data.

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How we used generative AI to run a generative AI hackathon

Collibra

As the data intelligence company, we’ve long anticipated broad adoption of AI, and Collibrians with data science and machine learning expertise have been working diligently on ways to apply AI/ML. Please provide 10 examples with options. What are the judging criteria for this hackathon?

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Anomaly detection in machine learning: Finding outliers for optimization of business functions

IBM Big Data Hub

Anomaly detection simply means defining “normal” patterns and metrics—based on business functions and goals—and identifying data points that fall outside of an operation’s normal behavior. The challenge for IT departments working in data science is making sense of expanding and ever-changing data points.

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GUEST ESSAY: The story behind how DataTribe is helping to seed ‘Cybersecurity Valley’ in Maryland

The Last Watchdog

Two notable examples are Sourcefire, acquired by Cisco for $2.7B It’s a cybersecurity and data science “foundry” that uniquely helps create, finance and intensely coach brand-new startups manned by former cybersecurity and data science veterans of select federal research centers and national laboratories.