Machine Learning 101 TELUS' Data Scientist Explains

If you work in tech or are even thinking about it, you've probably come across the term "machine learning". Google Trends shows that the popularity of the search term "Machine Learning" has grown by about 400% in the last three years. Clearly, there is a high demand for people with knowledge of machine learning–but what exactly is it? In this post, I'll describe what exactly is meant by the term "machine learning", and explain why it seems to have such importance to modern businesses. There is a famous definition by the computer scientist Tom M Mitchell which has often been used and which I will adapt here.