Practical Business Analytics Using R and Python: Solve Business Problems Using a Data-driven Approach

© Umesh R. Hodeghatta, Ph.D and Umesha Nayak 2023

U. R. Hodeghatta, U. NayakPractical Business Analytics Using R and Pythonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8754-5_10

10. Neural Networks

Umesh R. Hodeghatta¹   and Umesha Nayak²

(1)

South Portland, ME, USA

(2)

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

 

Though neural networks have been around for many years, because of technological advancement and computational power, they have gained popularity recently and now perform better than other machine learning algorithms today. In this chapter, we will discuss using neural networks and associated deep neural network algorithms to solve classification problems.

10.1 What Is an Artificial Neural Network?

Our brain is highly complicated and is a structure that does reasoning, ...