Artificial Intelligence gets a lot of press. LinkedIn timelines are especially filled with daily barrages of AI news. And with the advent of large language models, which give us very human-like interactions with chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, the field of artificial intelligence has exploded. Despite the hype, though, AI has been around for many decades.
Machine learning (and data science) is a workflow. It starts by identifying and centralizing valuable data, then scrubbing and cleaning it to make it trustworthy.