In this final chapter, we will focus on the concepts and types of machine learning.
In keeping with the overall theme of this book, we'll start by offering an explanation of statistical machine learning and related concepts, and then move on to drawing out some similarities between statistical machine learning and basic notions that a reader who has a data or database developer background should be able to relate to.
This chapter is organized into the following areas:
- Is a data structure a data model?
- An overview of machine learning concepts
- The types of machine learning
- Data developers and machine learning
- Using R to apply machine learning techniques to a database
