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CSE · Data Mining · Ch 3.4

Data reduction: jobs, industries and a business idea

Making huge data smaller without losing what matters, so it is faster and cheaper to analyse.

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In job ads, it's called

dimensionality reductionfeature selectionbig data optimisation

Roles that use it: Data Scientist, ML Engineer, Data Engineer.

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Industries that need it

TelecomGenomics and pharmaSatellite imagingIoT and sensors

Tools used at work: Python (scikit-learn), Spark, SQL.

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Your mother tongue is a skill

AI companies pay native speakers to label, clean and check data in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi and other Indian languages. That is the same data cleaning and classification you study in this subject, done in your mother tongue. Remote, part-time contract work is common.

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Build a business from it

Cost-cutting audits for companies paying too much for cloud data storage.

Prove it this weekend

Reduce a 50-column dataset to the 5 columns that matter and show your model still works.

Put it on your own website (make one free with our website tool) and share the link in your applications.

We never promise jobs or income. Pay depends on skills, city and company, so check live listings. Never pay anyone to apply for a job.

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