A Non-Technical Introduction to Machine Learning – Towards Data Science

Machine learning is a field that threatens to both augment and undermine exactly what it means to be human, and it's becoming increasingly important that you--yes, you--actually understand it. I don't think you should need to have a technical background to know what machine learning is or how it's done. Too much of the discussion about this field is either too technical or too uninformed, and, through this blog, I hope to level the playing field. This is for smart, ambitious people who want to know more about machine learning but who don't care about the esoteric statistical and computational details underlying the field. You don't need to know any math, statistics, or computer science to read and understand it.