8 Machine Learning Algorithms explained in Human language – Datakeen

What we call "Machine Learning" is none other than the meeting of statistics and the incredible computation power available today (in terms of memory, CPUs, GPUs). This domain has become increasingly visible important because of the digital revolution of companies leading to the production of massive data of different forms and types, at ever increasing rates: Big Data. On a purely mathematical level most of the algorithms used today are already several decades old. In this article I will explain the underlying logic of 8 machine learning algorithms in the simplest possible terms. Assigning a class / category to each of the observations in a dataset is called classification. It is done a posteriori, once the data is recovered.