Learning Social Media Analytics with R
by Dipanjan Sarkar, Karthik Ganapathy, Raghav Bali, Tushar Sharma
Machine learning
Machine learning is one of the trending buzzwords in the technology domain today, along with big data. Although a lot of it is over-hyped, machine learning (ML) has proved to be really effective in solving tough problems and has been significant in propelling the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Machine learning is basically an intersection of elements from the fields of computer science, statistics, and mathematics. This includes a combination of concepts from knowledge mining and discovery, artificial intelligence, pattern detection, optimization, and learning theory to develop algorithms and techniques which can learn from and make predictions on data without being explicitly programmed.
The learning here refers to the ...
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