How to Get Started with Machine Learning and AI in Finance

You've probably been hearing a lot of marketing buzz recently about "machine learning." More and more companies are using this new set of technologies that combine data mining and predictive analytics to automatically discover patterns in the data and to learn from those discoveries. For example, the first time you shop on a retail ecommerce site, you purchase a home brewing kit. The algorithms behind the scenes learn that you enjoy making your own beer. But they also have a ton of other customer data to pull from--in some cases, millions of customer profiles--many of whom also enjoy home brewing.