Introduction to supervised learning algorithms

Let's look at supervised learning for simple day-to-day activities. A parent asks their 15-year-old son to go to the store and get some vegetables. They give him a list of vegetables, say beets, carrots, beans, and tomatoes, that they want him to buy. He goes to the store and is able to identify the list of vegetables as per the list provided by his mother from all the other numerous varieties of vegetables present in the store and put them in his cart before going to the checkout. How was this possible?

Simple. The parent had provided enough training to the son by providing instances of each and every vegetable, which equipped him with sufficient knowledge of the vegetables. The son used the knowledge he has gained to choose the correct vegetables. He used the various attributes of the vegetables to arrive at the correct class label of the vegetable, which, in this case, is the name of the vegetable. The following table gives us a few of the...