The below table describes the basic differences between Data Science and ML:
Data Science | Machine Learning |
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It deals with understanding and finding hidden patterns or useful insights from the data, which helps to take smarter business decisions. | It is a subfield of data science that enables the machine to learn from the past data and experiences automatically. |
It is used for discovering insights from the data. | It is used for making predictions and classifying the result for new data points. |
It is a broad term that includes various steps to create a model for a given problem and deploy the model. | It is used in the data modeling step of the data science as a complete process. |
A data scientist needs to have skills to use big data tools like Hadoop, Hive and Pig, statistics, programming in Python, R, or Scala. | Machine Learning Engineer needs to have skills such as computer science fundamentals, programming skills in Python or R, statistics and probability concepts, etc. |
It can work with raw, structured, and unstructured data. | It mostly requires structured data to work on. |
Data scientists spent lots of time in handling the data, cleansing the data, and understanding its patterns. | ML engineers spend a lot of time for managing the complexities that occur during the implementation of algorithms and mathematical concepts behind that. |