The Three Ages of Data Science: When to Use Traditional Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or an LLM (Explained with One Example) | Towards Data Science
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Host A Welcome back to Exploring Next! Today we're looking at The Three Ages of Data Science: When to Use Traditional Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or an LLM (Explained with One Example) | Towards Data Science.
Host B Yeah, this one caught our eye because Data Science The Three Ages of Data Science: When to Use Traditional Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or a LLM (Explained with One Example) A practical use case to describe how the data scientist job changed across three generations of machine learning Piero Paialunga Nov 11, 2025 10 min read Share Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash One of the best songs of the universe (made by one of the most iconic singers ever) says this: Wish I could
Host A So the big idea is However, it also reminds me a lot of the changes that my job, as a Data Scientist, has undergone over the last 10 years of my career: When I started studying Physics, the only thing I thought of when someone said “Transformer” was Optimus Prime.
Host B What stood out to me is Machine Learning for me was all about Linear Regression, SVM, Random Forest etc… [ 2016 ] When I did my Master’s Degree in Big Data and Physics of Complex Systems, I first heard of “ BERT ” and various Deep Learning technologies that seemed very promising at that time.
Host A If you're curious, give the original a read: https://towardsdatascience.com/the-three-ages-of-data-science-when-to-use-traditional-machine-learning-deep-learning-or-a-large-language-models-explained-with-one-example/.
Host B And let us know what you try next!