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Difference Between Data Science and Machine Learning

Data science deals with understanding and extracting useful insights from data, while machine learning is a subfield and technique used in data science. Specifically: - Data science includes collecting, preparing, analyzing, and visualizing data to discover patterns and insights. Machine learning is a technique used by data scientists to enable machines to learn from past data. - Machine learning allows computers to learn from experience and improve performance without being explicitly programmed. It is used in the modeling step of data science projects to build models from data. - Both require programming and statistical skills, but data scientists work more with data acquisition, cleaning, and exploration while machine learning engineers focus on algorithm implementation and model development.

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Difference Between Data Science and Machine Learning

Data science deals with understanding and extracting useful insights from data, while machine learning is a subfield and technique used in data science. Specifically: - Data science includes collecting, preparing, analyzing, and visualizing data to discover patterns and insights. Machine learning is a technique used by data scientists to enable machines to learn from past data. - Machine learning allows computers to learn from experience and improve performance without being explicitly programmed. It is used in the modeling step of data science projects to build models from data. - Both require programming and statistical skills, but data scientists work more with data acquisition, cleaning, and exploration while machine learning engineers focus on algorithm implementation and model development.

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Difference Between Data Science

and Machine Learning


Data Science is the study of data cleansing, preparation, and analysis, while machine
learning is a branch of AI and subfield of data science. Data Science and Machine
Learning are the two popular modern technologies, and they are growing with an
immoderate rate. But these two buzzwords, along with artificial intelligence and deep
learning are very confusing term, so it is important to understand how they are
different from each other. In this topic, we will understand the difference between
Data Science and Machine Learning only, and how they relate to each other.

Data Science and Machine Learning are closely related to each other but have
different functionalities and different goals. At a glance, Data Science is a field to
study the approaches to find insights from the raw data. Whereas, Machine Learning is
a technique used by the group of data scientists to enable the machines to learn
automatically from the past data. To understand the difference in-depth, let's first
have a brief introduction to these two technologies.

Note: Data Science and Machine Learning are closely related to each other but cannot
be treated as synonyms.

What is Data Science?


Data science, as its name suggests, is all about the data. Hence, we can define it
as, "A field of deep study of data that includes extracting useful insights from
the data, and processing that information using different tools, statistical
models, and Machine learning algorithms." It is a concept that is used to handle
big data that includes data cleaning, data preparation, data analysis, and data
visualization.

A data scientist collects the raw data from various sources, prepares and pre-
processes the data, and applies machine learning algorithms, predictive analysis to
extract useful insights from the collected data.

For example, Netflix uses data science techniques to understand user interest by
mining the data and viewing patterns of its users.

Skills Required to become Data Scientist

o An excellent programming knowledge of Python, R, SAS, or Scala.


o Experience in SQL database Coding.
o Knowledge of Machine Learning Algorithms.
o Deep Knowledge of Statistics concepts.
o Data Mining, cleaning, and Visualizing skills.
o Skills to use Big data tools such as Hadoop.

What is Machine Learning?


Machine learning is a part of artificial intelligence and the subfield of Data Science. It
is a growing technology that enables machines to learn from past data and perform
a given task automatically. It can be defined as:

Machine Leaning allows the computers to learn from the past experiences by its own, it
uses statistical methods to improve the performance and predict the output without
being explicitly programmed.

The popular applications of ML are Email spam filtering, product


recommendations, online fraud detection, etc.

Skills Needed for the Machine Learning Engineer:

o Understanding and implementation of Machine Learning Algorithms.


o Natural Language Processing.
o Good Programming knowledge of Python or R.
o Knowledge of Statistics and probability concepts.
o Knowledge of data modeling and data evaluation.

Where is Machine Learning used in Data


Science?
The use of machine learning in data science can be understood by the development
process or life cycle of Data Science. The different steps that occur in Data science
lifecycle are as follows:

1. Business Requirements: In this step, we try to understand the requirement


for the business problem for which we want to use it. Suppose we want to
create a recommendation system, and the business requirement is to increase
sales.
2. Data Acquisition: In this step, the data is acquired to solve the given
problem. For the recommendation system, we can get the ratings provided by
the user for different products, comments, purchase history, etc.
3. Data Processing: In this step, the raw data acquired from the previous step is
transformed into a suitable format, so that it can be easily used by the further
steps.
4. Data Exploration: It is a step where we understand the patterns of the data,
and try to find out the useful insights from the data.
5. Modeling: The data modeling is a step where machine learning algorithms
are used. So, this step includes the whole machine learning process. The
machine learning process involves importing the data, data cleaning, building
a model, training the model, testing the model, and improving the model's
efficiency.
6. Deployment & Optimization: This is the last step where the model is
deployed on an actual project, and the performance of the model is checked.

Comparison Between Data Science and


Machine Learning
The below table describes the basic differences between Data Science and ML:

Data Science Machine Learning

It deals with understanding and finding It is a subfield of data science that enables the
hidden patterns or useful insights from machine to learn from the past data and
the data, which helps to take smarter experiences automatically.
business decisions.

It is used for discovering insights from It is used for making predictions and classifying
the data. the result for new data points.

It is a broad term that includes various It is used in the data modeling step of the data
steps to create a model for a given science as a complete process.
problem and deploy the model.

A data scientist needs to have skills to Machine Learning Engineer needs to have skills
use big data tools like Hadoop, Hive and such as computer science fundamentals,
Pig, statistics, programming in Python, R, programming skills in Python or R, statistics and
or Scala. probability concepts, etc.

It can work with raw, structured, and It mostly requires structured data to work on.
unstructured data.
Data scientists spent lots of time in ML engineers spend a lot of time for managing
handling the data, cleansing the data, the complexities that occur during the
and understanding its patterns. implementation of algorithms and mathematical
concepts behind that.

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