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# mathematical modelling — Data Scientist

For a Data Scientist, 'mathematical modelling' isn’t just building equations; it's *translating business problems into structures algorithms can understand*. Daily this means taking messy real-world data – customer behavior, sensor readings, financial transactions – and framing them as solvable mathematical problems. This often involves choosing the right statistical or machine learning model (regression, classification, clustering, time series analysis) to represent relationships within that data. It's about identifying key variables, making simplifying assumptions (e.g., assuming linearity when it might not *perfectly* hold), and defining an objective function – what are we trying to optimize? Think predicting churn, forecasting sales, or detecting fraud.

## Weitere Anreicherung

Stage-2 source for future practitioner grounding: arXiv cs.LG/stat.ML (ML preprints).
