Machine Learning Quick Start: Categories of Learning - Data Tech Blog

In Part I of this blog series, I described machine learning's history as well as its current prevailing ideas. My introduction was purposely general because my objective was to cement in the reader's mind exactly what machine learning is, and is not. Here in Part II, I dig in a bit deeper and differentiate between the various categories of machine learning. Recall from Part I that machine learning literally entails computers learning – either from data, or from their environment. In general, there are several ways in which computers learn (referred to here as categories).