Machine Learning with R

"What we want is a machine that can learn from experience."                                                                                                                           – Alan Turing

Machine learning is an interdisciplinary field that involves computer science, neurocomputing, statistics, and more. The idea of machines actually learning can be dated back to Alan Turing and the beginning of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Although the foundations of machine learning and the vague idea of it could be found earlier in the sayings of the great Turing, it was not until 1959 that the term machine learning, was coined by the computer scientist, Arthur Samuel.

Although such ideas were circulating before 20st century ...

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