How To Solve A Classification Task With Machine Learning

By now, I'm sure you've heard the term Machine Learning thrown a lot. Since most big companies and financial institutions rely on data to operate at such a large scale, it's no wonder that fields in data science are taking off. But what exactly is Machine Learning and how can we use it in a practical sense? Machine Learning is the field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. The quote above is in my opinion the best general definition of what machine learning does.