Take a breath. Machine Learning is really nothing new. Remember stats class?
It does take some education. Computers can do much of the work these days. But you as a data scientist need to understand what you are doing, how to manage and classify data and which questions to ask. Like any other career, it takes experience.
Andrew NG ‘s Stanford Machine Learning class is free, easy to follow and considered the gold standard for Machine Learning.
You can watch the first class here:
A starting point for Machine Learning: Stanford’s Andrew NG
