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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Beginners
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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Beginners

by David Dindi, Patrick D. Smith
October 2018
Beginner
362 pages
9h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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Supervised learning algorithms

Supervised algorithms rely on human knowledge to complete their tasks. Let's say we have a dataset related to loan repayment that contains several demographic indicators, as well as whether a loan was paid back or not:

Income

Age

Marital Status

Location

Savings

Paid

$90,000

28

Married

Austin, Texas

$50,000

y

 

The Paid column, which tells us if a loan was paid back or not, is called the target - it's what we would like to predict. The data that contains information about the applicants background is known as the features of the datasets. In supervised learning, algorithms learn to predict the target based on the features, or in other words, what indicators give a high probability ...

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