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Tarek A. Atwan
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Tarek A. Atwan is a data analytics expert with over 16 years of international consulting experience, providing subject matter expertise in data science, machine learning operations, data engineering, and business intelligence. He has taught multiple hands-on coding boot camps, courses, and workshops on various topics, including data science, data visualization, Python programming, time series forecasting, and blockchain at various universities in the United States. He is regarded as a data science mentor and advisor, working with executive leaders in numerous industries to solve complex problems using a data-driven approach.
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Understanding supervised machine learning

In supervised machine learning, the data used for training contains known past outcomes, referred to as dependent or target variable(s). These are the variables you want your machine learning (ML) model to predict. The ML algorithm learns from the data using all other variables, known as independent or predictor variables, to determine how they are used to estimate the target variable. For example, the target variable is the house price in the house pricing prediction problem. The other variables, such as the number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, total square footage, and city, are the independent variables used to train the model. You can think of the ML model as a mathematical model for making predictions on unobserved outcomes.

On the other hand, in unsupervised machine learning, the data contains no labels or outcomes to train on (unknown or unobserved). Unsupervised algorithms are used to find patterns in the data, such as the case...

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Tarek A. Atwan

Tarek A. Atwan is a data analytics expert with over 16 years of international consulting experience, providing subject matter expertise in data science, machine learning operations, data engineering, and business intelligence. He has taught multiple hands-on coding boot camps, courses, and workshops on various topics, including data science, data visualization, Python programming, time series forecasting, and blockchain at various universities in the United States. He is regarded as a data science mentor and advisor, working with executive leaders in numerous industries to solve complex problems using a data-driven approach.
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