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The Machine Learning Workshop

You're reading from   The Machine Learning Workshop Get ready to develop your own high-performance machine learning algorithms with scikit-learn

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839219061
Length 286 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Hyatt Saleh Hyatt Saleh
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Introduction to Machine Learning

Machine learning (ML) is a subset of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that consists of a wide variety of algorithms capable of learning from the data that is being fed to them, without being specifically programmed for a task. This ability to learn from data allows the algorithms to create models that are capable of solving complex data problems by finding patterns in historical data and improving them as new data is fed to the models.

These different ML algorithms use different approximations to solve a task (such as probability functions), but the key element is that they are able to consider a countless number of variables for a particular data problem, making the final model better at solving the task than humans are. The models that are created using ML algorithms are created to find patterns in the input data so that those patterns can be used to make informed predictions in the future.

Applications of ML

Some of the popular tasks that can...

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