Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
John Foreman in, Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight works towards a A Workable Definition of Data Science, which is definitely an excellent read. To an extent, data science is synonymous with or related to terms like business analytics, operations research, business intelligence, competitive intelligence, data analysis and modeling, and knowledge extraction (also called knowledge…
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The Fallacies of Data Science
1. Correlation = Causation, and Big Data = Information and Insights because Data Context Doesn't Matter.
2. The random nature of the event drives the distribution, therefore the likely distribution also drive the events.
3. Base Rate Fallacy only applies to small data-sets.