Supervised Learning

Get introduced to supervised learning.

Introduction to supervised learning

Among the various approaches to ML, supervised learning is the one that reaped the most impressive results so far. Here is how supervised learning solves a problem like diagnosing pneumonia.

To do supervised learning, we’ll start from a set of examples, each carrying a label that the computer can learn from. For instance:

What are we building? Example Label
A system that identifies a dog’s breed from its barking A .wav recording of a dog The dog’s breed, like “greyhound” or “beagle”
A system that detects pneumonia An X-ray scan A boolean flag: 1 if the scan shows pneumonia, 0 if it doesn’t
A system that predicts the earnings of a lemonade stand from the weather The recorded temperatures on a day in the past The recorded earnings on
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