Talk on Machine Learning using Python in the Big Things are Happening Here meetup on April 13, 2015

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Yuval Mazor
Machine Learning with Python
Big Things are Happening Here
Meetup, April 2015

2. About Me
Yuval Mazor,
Senior Architect
@ Sela Group, Israel
yuvalm@sela.co.il
@yuvmaz
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/yuvmaz/

3. Agenda
What is Machine Learning?
Types of Machine Learning Problems
Demo!

4. What is Machine Learning?
“… Subfield of computer science and
statistics that deals with the
construction ... of systems that can
learn from data rather than follow only
explicitly programmed instructions… “
Wikipedia

5. Machine Learning is not:
A specific tool or technique
A silver-bullet for all your data needs
Trivial or even easy
Magic!

6. Types of Machine Learning Problems
Classification – what is the category of observation X?
Clustering – which observations belong together?
Which do not?
Regression – what is the relation between variables?
For a given value of variable y, what will be the value of
x?
Others:
Recommender Systems Basket Analysis
…

7. Demo
Clustering Bank Customers

8. Summary
Machine Learning is a set of algorithms and
tools for designing models to answer business
questions
Make decisions based on the application of
models to inputs
Learn, revise and apply!

9. Questions