What is Machine Learning?

Machine Learning (ML) is a field of computer science that came out of research into Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data analytics. ML focuses on the creation of models that have been defined by the deduction of algorithms during the analysis of data by a computer system. The resultant model has utility in its ability to be applied to new datasets and thus the potential for valuable insights to be gleaned from the data. Supervised Learning Supervised learning uses a pre-labelled dataset as an input to the system and the resultant model is the result of mapping the inputs to the outputs. Labels are used to identify the correct answers to the question that is to be posed to the system on a historical dataset.