10 Machine Learning Terms Explained in Simple English

If you're relatively new to Machine Learning and it's applications, you'll more than likely have come across some pretty technical terms that are often difficult for the novice mathematician/scientist to get their head around. Following on from a previous blog, (10 Common NLP Terms Explained for the Text Analysis Novice), we decided to put together a list of 10 Machine Learning terms which have been broken down in simple English, making them easier to understand. So, if you're struggling to understand the difference between Supervised and Un-supervised Learning you'll enjoy this post. A subfield of computer science and artificial intelligence (AI) that focuses on the design of systems that can learn from and make decisions and predictions based on data. Machine learning enables computers to act and make data-driven decisions rather than being explicitly programmed to carry out a certain task.