Summary

In this chapter, we understood the concept of the results pyramid, which is a model for the continuous improvement of human life and striving to get better results with an improved understanding of the world based on data (experiences), which shape our models (beliefs). With the convergence of the evolving human brain and computers, we know that the best of both worlds can really improve our lives. We have seen how computers have evolved from dumb to intelligent machines and we provided a high-level overview of intelligence and Big Data, along with types of processing frameworks.

With this introduction and context, in subsequent chapters in this book, we are going to take a deep dive into the core concepts of taking an algorithmic approach to data and the basics of machine learning with illustrative algorithms. We will implement these algorithms with available frameworks and illustrate this with code samples.