Machine Learning Algorithms: Which One to Choose for Your Problem

When I was beginning my way in data science, I often faced the problem of choosing the most appropriate algorithm for my specific problem. If you're like me, when you open some article about machine learning algorithms, you see dozens of detailed descriptions. The paradox is that they don't ease the choice. In this article for Statsbot, I will try to explain basic concepts and give some intuition of using different kinds of machine learning algorithms in different tasks. At the end of the article, you'll find the structured overview of the main features of described algorithms. Supervised learning Supervised learning is the task of inferring a function from labeled training data.