New to Machine Learning? Avoid these three mistakes

Common pitfalls when learning from data

James Faghmous
6 min readNov 7, 2013

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Machine learning (ML) is one of the hottest fields in data science. As soon as ML entered the mainstream through Amazon, Netflix, and Facebook people have been giddy about what they can learn from their data. However, modern machine learning (i.e. not the theoretical statistical learning that emerged in the…

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James Faghmous

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