Mastering Machine Learning with Python in Six Steps: A Practical Implementation Guide to Predictive Data Analytics Using Python

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Manohar SwamynathanMastering Machine Learning with Python in Six Steps10.1007/978-1-4842-2866-1_2

2. Step 2 – Introduction to Machine Learning

Manohar Swamynathan¹ 

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Bangalore, Karnataka, India

 

Machine learning is a subfield of computer science that evolved from the study of pattern recognition and computational learning theory in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Let’s look at a few other versions of definitions that exist for machine learning:

• In 1959, Arthur Samuel, an American pioneer in the field of computer gaming, machine learning, and artificial intelligence has defined machine learning as a “Field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed.”
• Machine learning is a field ...