Preface

Machine learning is one of the biggest trends that the world of computing has seen. Machine learning systems have a profound and exciting ability to provide important insights on an amazing variety of applications, from ground-breaking and lifesaving medical research to discovering fundamental physical aspects of our universe; from providing us with better, cleaner food to web analytics and economic modeling. In fact, there is hardly any area of our lives that is not touched by this technology in some way. Everyone wants to get into the field of machine learning, and in order to obtain sufficient recognition in this field, one must be able to understand and design a machine learning system that serves the needs of a project.