The significance of visualization in machine learning

"A picture is worth a thousand words"

The ultimate goal of machine learning is to discover better insights from large volumes of data.

If we present the results of a data analysis in table format or as row numbers, it is tiring to perceive the real insights that machine learning has truly obtained. If we visualize the results or the data itself, then it helps us to get a clear picture of the extracted data.

Also, visualization assists us to get the right intuition of the behavior of certain machine learning algorithms easily.

So, visualization is an important aspect in any machine learning application.

However, Apache Mahout does not contain visualization as a component in its library yet.

In this chapter, we will discuss the visualization techniques that can be applied to Apache Mahout using simple integration with D3.js.