Data Science 101: Machine learning in the data science workflow

In our introductory series on data science fundamentals, Uptake’s data science expert Manny B. explains what data science is, what data scientists do and how businesses can learn and take action from data.

Learning lies at the heart of the data science workflow. Machine learning gives systems the ability to learn from data to improve the performance of specific tasks, without being explicitly programmed to do so. In part four (episode one), Manny B. walks us through an example of machine learning in the data science workflow: