5 Essential Concepts for New Data Scientists

Reo Neo
Towards Data Science
9 min readDec 14, 2021

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Data science can be extremely intimidating especially when just starting out. While it can be easy to use plug-and-play code snippets implementing popular machine learning algorithms, it cannot substitute for mathematical intuition. Here are some important concepts which I found to be rather essential to my data science journey.

1. Bias Variance Trade-off

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