Everything your grandmother wanted to know about the world of data and never dared to ask

Jaime Durán
yottabytes
Published in
10 min readApr 12, 2019

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Data Science, Big Data, Data Lakes, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Business Intelligence, Business Analytics … There has been a lot of writing and talking about these over the last years. And as usual, when something becomes fashionable, the concepts, definitions and limits gradually fade away.

In this article I’m trying to put some order, explaining who is who in a simple way. If these things mentioned above are not clear for you… stay with me!

Available in Spanish too | Artículo disponible también en español

Let’s see if I understand it… [Danh Vo on Unsplash]

If you have an account on Linkedin and use it regularly, you may have noticed it’s becoming more and more complicated to know what the hell a person is doing just by reading their headline. We’ve filled everything with flamboyant technical words, and acronyms that perhaps we are tired of seeing, but surely we have not bothered to look for their meaning.

AHA…

“But you … what do you do exactly?”

And this is when the fun begins…

  • If the question is asked by someone…

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Jaime Durán
yottabytes

Yet another data scientist with a blog. In fact I write two (uno en español)