Understanding machine learning

Marketing folk love to use terms like artificial intelligence or data science in their promotional materials. Machine learning is a subset of data science. It is one practical way to add intelligence to software.

More Information: You can learn the science behind one of the most popular and successful data science techniques by enrolling in Harvard University's free Data Science: Machine Learning 8-week course at the following link: https://www.edx.org/course/data-science-machine-learning-2

This book cannot teach machine learning in one chapter. If you want to know how machine learning algorithms work internally, then you would need to understand data science topics including calculus, statistics, probability theory, and linear algebra. Then you would need to learn about machine learning in depth.

More Information: To learn about machine learning in depth, read Python Machine Learning, Third Edition by Sebastian Raschka...