Artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive and prescriptive analytics, inference –
… and this is just the “marketing” subset of terms. If we deep dive further into the technical details, you will hear about classification, clustering, neural nets, supervised and unsupervised learning and so much more. While each of those bears some form of distinction from the others, in the end, I would argue that they all boil down to one thing – discovering patterns in large data sets. This is done by using a set of data analysis techniques, which at their very core ar