The 3 Kinds of Context – Inside Machine learning – Medium

"What do you do for a living?" That question used to have a pretty clear answer: "I'm a data scientist." But lately, it's gotten more complicated… The three of us -- Jorge Castañón, Óscar D. Lara Yejas, and Adarsh Pannu -- do data science at IBM's Machine Learning Hub, where clients from around the world bring us their mission-critical goals for turning data into knowledge. The clients range across industries from insurance to retail to energy to finance. On Monday, a manufacturer needs to use data from the quality control process to fast-forward the testing of components -- with no forfeit of excellence.