Machine Learning is Label Making

Label Making. That is my simple two-word definition of Machine Learning. Machine Learning is Label Making. ML is LM.  Especially supervised machine learning, which creates either numerical labels (using regression algorithms) to make predictions about a continuous data value (such as sale or stock prices), or categorical labels (using classification algorithms) to assign data to pre-defined groups also called classes (such as Fraud or Not Fraud for financial transactions).    This episode is sponsored by: Vertica.com    Extended Show Notes: ocdqblog.com/dbp    Follow Jim Harris on Twitter: @ocdqblog    Email Jim Harris: ocdqblog.com/contact    Other ways to listen: bit.ly/listen-dbp