Machine Learning for Data Analysis

Over the course of an hour, an unsolicited email skips your inbox and goes straight to spam, a car next to you auto-stops when a pedestrian runs in front of it, and an ad for the product you were thinking about yesterday pops up on your social media feed. What do these events all have in common? It's artificial intelligence that has guided all these decisions. And the force behind them all is machine-learning algorithms that use data to predict outcomes. Now, before we look at how machine learning aids data analysis, let's explore the fundamentals of each.