THE Fundamental Concept in Data Science

What’s the Point?

Frank Neugebauer
CodeX
Published in
5 min readJun 13, 2022

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One of the most fundamental concepts in data science involves the idea of a “prediction” (the word should probably be “inference”). But how does that happen? What’s going on under the covers?

What’s THE fundamental concept?

To be thorough, the answer is, “it depends,” but to avoid an overly cerebral piece explaining…

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Frank Neugebauer
CodeX
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I manage Frankly Artificial Intelligence, LLC. I also work at Google (all my views are strictly my own). I enjoy teaching, cycling, running, music, and art.