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Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 19, 2023

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I'm not in the field but afaik it's an interdisciplinary field where you use statistics, math, programming, and domain specific expertise to analyze and interpret big or complex sets of data, and build models for predictions.

Machine learning is used to make programs or AIs that can more or less autonomously run and do the work of analysis and model building.