Machine learning is everywhere. When you book a flight ticket, an algorithm decides the price you are going to pay for it. When you apply for a loan, machine learning may decide whether you are going to get it or not. When you scroll through your Facebook timeline, it picks which advertisements to show to you. Machine learning also plays a big role in your Google search results. It organizes your email's inbox and filters out spam, it goes through your resumé before recruiters when you apply for a job, and, more recently, it has also started to play the role of your personal assistant in the form of Siri and other virtual assistants.
In this book, we will learn about the theory and practice of machine learning. We will understand when and how to apply it. To get started, we will look at a high-level introduction to how machine learning works. You will then be able to differentiate...
