Why Should You Learn Machine Learning and Data Science? A Brief Introduction.

Prakash Mandekar
6 min readOct 10, 2020
Human and Machine

What is Machine Learning?

In simple words, Machine learning helps computers to learn automatically and without the help of any human being, as they learn from past events and data. As machine learning is used everywhere from household devices to automated cars, they are just replacing humans. And I think that machine learning is the future.

What is Data Science?

The data which is produced every day or every minute is very huge, and the data is going to increase every day. As the world population is interacting with the internet the data is going to increase, the amount of data produced globally on a daily basis is unpredictable and keeps on increasing.

Data Science is the study of data and applying science or statistics techniques to data and finding trends and interpreting data for decision making. Data science is used in every organization or company to study customers and help them in future decision making.

If you are in search of the most in-demand and most-exciting career domains, gearing yourself up with machine learning and data science skills is a good move now.

As we have seen what machine learning and data science is, now it’s time for in-depth understanding.

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Machine Learning

Machine learning helps to make decisions and every task can be completed with a data-defined pattern to be automated with machine learning. Machine learning helps organizations to make decisions which previously were taken by human beings.

Types Of Machine Learning

Types of Machine Learning Techniques

Machine learning uses two main techniques:

  • Supervised learning- Supervised learning allows you to collect data and make decisions or output from the previous Deployment. The data which is used is labeled data means data which has some meaning of its own.
  • Unsupervised machine learning- Unsupervised Supervised allows you to find patterns in unknown data, The data which is used is unlabeled data, the algorithms try to learn new trends from the unlabeled data and make predictions.

How does Machine Learning work?

Machine Learning Process

Machine learning algorithms learn, but it’s often hard to find a precise meaning for the term learning because different ways exist to extract information from data, depending on how the machine learning algorithm is built.

Generally, the learning process requires huge amounts of data that provide an expected response given particular inputs. Each input pair represents an example and more examples make it easier for the algorithm to learn. That’s because each input pair fits within a line, cluster, or other statistical representation that defines a problem domain.

Machine learning is the act of optimizing a model, which is mathematical, summarized representation of data itself, such that it can predict or otherwise determine an appropriate response even when it receives input that it hasn’t seen before. The more accurately the model can come up with correct responses, the better the model has learned from the data inputs provided. An algorithm fits the model to the data, and this fitting process is training.

As we know Some machine Learning tricks, Now it’s time for Data Science and I know you will like it too, Let’s Get started.

Data Science

What Is Data Science?

Data Science is a science of studying a large amount of data and finding meaningful information from it. Data Science is a combinational study of statistics and computation to find trends/ insights for decision-making purposes.

Data can be drawn from different mediums like social media, e-commerce sites, cell phones, healthcare surveys, and internet searches. The increase in the amount of data has helped to open new doors for data science.

Applications of data science

Data science is one of the most demanding and increasing fields nowadays and thus used in various areas and technologies. There are multiple applications of data science. Let us have a look at them:

Healthcare Sectors: The healthcare sector is one of the most benefited industries of data science. Data science is used in detecting tumors, artery stenosis, Cancer detection. With the help of data science the patients who have minor symptoms can be treated well and help to study them well.

Internet Searching- When we search a text or anything on the internet or search engines the algorithm helps the system to find the same or related topic to you, this is all because of data science.

Fraud and Risk Detection: In fraud and risk detections the data from the previous transactions are recorded and studied using data science algorithms and the transactions which are fraud can be detected and the same in future transactions can be avoided.

As we have seen the applications of data science now we will know which one of these two is better.

Which is better: ML or DS? And Who Earns more? Let us Understand It better.

Difference between MLE and DS?

Which is better, Machine Learning or Data Science?

I can say no one can compare the two domains to decide which is better — precisely because they are two different branches of studies. However, one cannot deny the obvious popularity of data science today. Almost all the industries have taken recourse to data to arrive at more robust business decisions. Data has become an integral part of businesses, whether it is for analyzing performance or device data-powered strategies or applications.

Machine Learning is an evolving branch that is yet to be used and adopted by a few industries which only talks about the future of machine learning. So, professionals of both these domains will be in equal demand in the future.

Who earns more, Data Scientist or Machine Learning Engineer?

Both Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers are trending and quite in-demand roles in the market today. If you consider the entry-level jobs, then data scientists seem to earn more than Machine Learning engineers. An average data science salary for entry-level roles is more than 6 LPA, whereas, for Machine Learning engineers, it is around 5 LPA. However, when it comes to senior experts, professionals from both domains earn equally well, averaging around 20 LPA.

Now we know what data science and machine learning are and we have learned its applications, how these two fields are different from each other. We also learned which role plays an important role and what is the pay scale for both the roles.

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Prakash Mandekar
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