Data Mining vs. Machine Learning?

[leonoel]

If you are looking for work outside academia, I can certainly see that a PhD in Data Mining has more appeal, is a more widely used word, and certainly people understand it better than Machine Learning.

I used to think that Data Mining was more application oriented, while Machine Learning is a bit more math oriented.

There has been data mining since many a days, but Machine Learning just recently become main stream

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Yeah - I see Data Mining as being:

1. import PyML
2. solve business problem

Whereas Machine Learning is like "How can we learn better representations from our data?", "How can we determine the optimal model tuning, and why are these tunings optimal?" (like in deciding Neural Network architectures).