Reader small image

You're reading from  Practical Big Data Analytics

Product typeBook
Published inJan 2018
Reading LevelIntermediate
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781783554393
Edition1st Edition
Languages
Concepts
Right arrow
Author (1)
Nataraj Dasgupta
Nataraj Dasgupta
author image
Nataraj Dasgupta

Nataraj Dasgupta is the vice president of advanced analytics at RxDataScience Inc. Nataraj has been in the IT industry for more than 19 years, and has worked in the technical and analytics divisions of Philip Morris, IBM, UBS Investment Bank, and Purdue Pharma. At Purdue Pharma, Nataraj led the data science division, where he developed the company's award-winning big data and machine learning platform. Prior to Purdue, at UBS, he held the role of Associate Director, working with high-frequency and algorithmic trading technologies in the foreign exchange trading division of the bank.
Read more about Nataraj Dasgupta

Right arrow

Summary


In this chapter, we learnt about the basic fundamentals of Machine Learning, the different types such as Supervised and Unsupervised and major concepts such as data pre-processing, data imputation, managing imbalanced classes and other topics.

We also learnt about the key distinctions between terms that are being used interchangeably today, in particular the terms AI and Machine Learning. We learned that artificial intelligence deals with a vast array of topics, such as game theory, sociology, constrained optimizations, and machine learning; AI is much broader in scope relative to machine learning.

Machine learning facilitates AI; namely, machine learning algorithms are used to create systems that are artificially intelligent, but they differ in scope. A regression problem (finding the line of best fit given a set of points) can be considered a machine learning algorithm, but it is much less likely to be seen as an AI algorithm (conceptually, although it technically could be).

In the...

lock icon
The rest of the page is locked
Previous PageNext Chapter
You have been reading a chapter from
Practical Big Data Analytics
Published in: Jan 2018Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781783554393

Author (1)

author image
Nataraj Dasgupta

Nataraj Dasgupta is the vice president of advanced analytics at RxDataScience Inc. Nataraj has been in the IT industry for more than 19 years, and has worked in the technical and analytics divisions of Philip Morris, IBM, UBS Investment Bank, and Purdue Pharma. At Purdue Pharma, Nataraj led the data science division, where he developed the company's award-winning big data and machine learning platform. Prior to Purdue, at UBS, he held the role of Associate Director, working with high-frequency and algorithmic trading technologies in the foreign exchange trading division of the bank.
Read more about Nataraj Dasgupta