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Personally, it looks like information is handled as the brand new oil of the digital age. This feels very true with the increase in machine studying, the place information performs such an necessary position.
Nonetheless in my expertise, it additionally looks as if many individuals dive straight into machine studying with out first mastering the underlying arithmetic. That’s why I’ve made it some extent to concentrate on mathematical ideas in my articles. Nonetheless, as many readers have identified, it may be much more efficient to be taught math alongside machine studying. Making use of mathematical ideas in sensible machine studying eventualities not solely deepens understanding of the mathematics, but additionally makes the educational course of extra participating and efficient.
And what higher approach to introduce machine studying than by speaking about information — a number of information! (Or the dearth of it, as you’ll see.)
I’ve been part of a analysis group centered on well being risk-prediction modeling. Whereas I’ll skip the detailed subjects of our work, a serious problem we…
