Machine Learning in Production: Developing and Optimizing Data Science Workflows and Applications

7. Introduction to Algorithms and Architectures

7.1 Introduction

You have most of the background in place now and can finally start machine learning! There are two main settings in which you’ll run machine-learning applications. The first setting is on a local computer, or workstation. This is usually for the purposes of a small, one-off analysis. The second context is in a production environment where a task is automated with relatively long-term support.

An example of a small, one-off analysis would be to find terms in article titles that correlate with higher click rates. You might do this analysis to report to a team of writers so they can experiment with the terms in their titles to increase click rates. An example of something that might ...