How Machine Learning Benefits the Transportation, Finance, Medical, and Manufacturing Industries

With the advent of wearable technologies such as the Fitbit and the Apple Watch, devices are collecting billions of data points on consumers -- everything from their sleep cycles to their step counts to their heart rates. While that information is useful, what is even better is the insight machine learning can glean from analyzing this data. In the future, patient screenings will include software that analyzes health over time and allows doctors to predict health complications before they happen. Because behavioral changes are the most effective way to keep us healthy, proactive directions from doctors can replace diagnoses after the fact. Significant strides have already been made in this direction at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where deep learning is already able to predict heart failure.