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Mastering Machine Learning with Spark 2.x

You're reading from   Mastering Machine Learning with Spark 2.x Harness the potential of machine learning, through spark

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785283451
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Data science

Finding a uniform definition of data science, however, is akin to tasting wine and comparing flavor profiles among friends—everyone has their own definition and no one description is more accurate than the other. At its core, however, data science is the art of asking intelligent questions about data and receiving intelligent answers that matter to key stakeholders. Unfortunately, the opposite also holds true—ask lousy questions of the data and get lousy answers! Therefore, careful formulation of the question is the key for extracting valuable insights from your data. For this reason, companies are now hiring data scientists to help formulate and ask these questions.

Figure 1 - Growing Google Trend of big data and data science
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