A third data science myth is that modern data science software is easy to use, and so data science is easy to do. It is true that data science software has become more user-friendly. However, this ease of use can hide the fact that doing data science properly requires both appropriate domain knowledge and the expertise regarding the properties of the data and the assumptions underpinning the different ML algorithms. In fact, it has never been easier to do data science badly. Like everything else in life, if you don’t understand what you are doing when you do data science, you are going to make
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