1 Introduction: Delivering machine learning projects is hard; let’s do it better

This chapter covers:

  • Describing the structure and objectives of this book
  • Defining what machine learning is
  • Explaining why machine learning is important
  • Exploring why machine learning projects are different
  • Listing other approaches to machine learning development

This book describes an end-to-end process for delivering a machine learning (ML) project to solve a business problem that’s big enough and difficult enough to need a team. The rapid surge of interest in ML and the sudden change in ML’s capability with the development of practical deep neural networks documented by LeCun et al. [1] and other advanced methods such as MCMC algorithms discussed by Carpenter ...

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