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Summary: Today on the Datanauts podcast, we talk with Vivian Zhang, a Machine Learning (ML) expert.<br> If you’ve been hearing about ML from IT marketing folks and it all sounds like magic unicorn dust, this is your show. We’re cutting through the cruft to get to what’s real.<br> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/shangxuanzhang/" rel="noopener">Vivian Zhang</a> is CTO and Chief Data Scientist at the <a target="_blank" href="https://nycdatascience.com/" rel="noopener">NYC Data Science Academy</a>. We establish a baseline of what machine learning is, how it fits into the broader category of artificial intelligence, and how ML might move the needle in IT infrastructure.<br> We look at business problems that ML can be applied to, and explore real-world examples including anomaly detection.<br> Show Links:<br> <a target="_blank" href="https://nycdatascience.com/" rel="noopener">NYC Data Science Academy</a><br> <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/NYCDataSci" rel="noopener">NYC Data Science Academy on Twitter</a><br> <a target="_blank" href="https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/" rel="noopener">Amazon SageMaker</a><br>