Why Python for Machine Learning? - Python Tutorial

Machine learning (ML) is a type of programming that enables computers to automatically learn from data provided to them and improve from experience without deliberately being programmed. It is based on algorithms that parse data, learn and analyze them, and make predictions or intelligent decisions in an autonomous fashion. With this clever characterization of Machine Learning, it is often interchanged with Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, to be accurate, ML is only a subset of artificial intelligence. Machine Learning is simply applied AI based on the idea that machines need to be given access to data in order for them learn and analyze it themselves.