Machine Learning For Developers

Machine Learning has definitely gone mainstream with almost all the major vendors announcing support for Machine Learning platforms, frameworks, libraries and how they have started to use it in their applications. This blog post highlights the key Machine Learning process and the spectrum of Machine Learning platforms that are available today for developers to get started. The first thing that developers need to understand that Machine Learning techniques are very different from the traditional programming constructs that they use, while developing their applications. It is often remarked in a lighter vein that some vendors pass of multiple if, then, else statements are machine learning in their applications. The diagram shown below depicts a typical Machine Learning process. The key point to take away from the above process is that the individual iterations around Data Preparation, Model building will keep on happening and we are never finished.