Teaching Machines: What is Machine Learning?

Data Science and machine learning have generated a lot of discussion surrounding them in the past few years. Between them, they are poised to take over and transform the ways that we do many things in our everyday lives: how we drive our cars, manage our money, and make smart decisions. If we asked you to define them and how they work together however, could you? Data Science is the field of gathering, storing, cleaning, predicting on, and visualizing data. Machine learning is the practice of making models and algorithms, frequently referred to as "machines" by practitioners, to learn and predict based on new information.