How Did You Benefit from Machine Learning Today?

In an earlier blog, we talked about how machine learning is used in social media analytics. In this post, we're going to review machine learning (ML) basics and examples, and explore some of the areas you might be unaware of where ML is having a significant impact. "Evolved from the study of pattern recognition and computational learning theory in artificial intelligence, machine learning explores the study and construction of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions on data." The goal of ML is pretty simple -- teach computer systems to perform a task. The computer system gains experience by observing patterns from examples rather than being programmed with explicit instructions or rules.