Chapter 6
What Are Machine Learning and Data Mining?
Keywords: Models, Algorithms, ML (Machine Learning), Data Mining, Parameters, Ensemble, Regression, Classification, Natural Language Processing, Clustering
Preamble
This chapter is about two very powerful areas of analytics. However, are they really two distinct areas? We will explore that question as well as important, elementary foundations in these areas. We will provide a few examples of the types of problems machine learning and data mining can solve. We will explore the strengths and weaknesses of these techniques compared with business intelligence (BI) covered in the last chapter and provide a brief contrast to the next chapter on artificial intelligence (AI).
