What is Machine Learning?

Straightforward introduction.

How to Think About Machine Learning    by Jason Brownlee 
Machine learning is a large and interdisciplinary field of study.

You can achieve impressive results with machine learning and find solutions to very challenging problems. But this is only a small corner of the broader field of machine learning often called predictive modeling or predictive analytics.

In this post, you will discover how to change the way you think about machine learning in order to best serve you as a machine learning practitioner.

After reading this post, you will know:

What machine learning is and how it relates to artificial intelligence and statistics.
The corner of machine learning that you should focus on.
How to think about your problem and the machine learning solution to your problem.

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