[#D2Blog] How can #MachineLearning give a business an upper hand? #BigData #DataScience

First there was big data – extremely large data sets that made it possible to use data analytics to reveal patterns and trends, allowing businesses to improve customer relations and production efficiency. Then came fast data analytics – the application of big data analytics in real-time to help solve issues with customer relations, security, and other challenges before they became problems. Now, with machine learning, the concepts of big data and fast data analytics can be used in combination with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to avoid these problems and challenges in the first place. So what is machine learning, and how can it help your business? Machine learning is a subset of AI that lets computers'learn' without explicitly being programmed.