Data Science & Machine Learning
Overview
Data Analytics, ML, DL, Applications
& Scope
1. Data Science
• Definition: Extracting insights from data using
statistics, algorithms & computation.
• Components:
• - Data Collection & Cleaning
• - Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
• - Statistical Modeling
• - Machine Learning & AI Integration
• - Data Visualization
• - Deployment & Decision Making
2. Data Analytics
• Definition: Analyzing datasets for patterns,
trends & decisions.
• Types of Analytics:
• - Descriptive: What happened?
• - Diagnostic: Why did it happen?
• - Predictive: What will happen?
• - Prescriptive: What should be done?
3. Machine Learning
• Definition: AI subset where systems learn from
data.
• Types of ML:
• - Supervised Learning → Regression,
Classification
• - Unsupervised Learning → Clustering,
Association
• - Reinforcement Learning → Agent learns via
rewards/penalties
4. Deep Learning
• Definition: ML branch using multi-layered
neural networks.
• Techniques:
• - Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) → General
tasks
• - Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) →
Image & spatial data
5. Real-world Applications
• - Healthcare: Disease prediction, medical
imaging
• - Finance: Fraud detection, algorithmic trading
• - Retail: Recommendations, customer
segmentation
• - Autonomous Vehicles: Self-driving cars
• - NLP: Chatbots, sentiment analysis
• - Manufacturing: Predictive maintenance
6. Scope of Data Science
• - High demand across industries
• - Careers: Data Scientist, ML Engineer, AI
Researcher
• - Integration: IoT, Cloud, Big Data, Edge AI
• - Future: Explainable AI, AutoML, Generative
AI