The Machine Learning Process
Last Updated on July 25, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Benjamin Obi Tayo Ph.D.
Originally published on Towards AI.
The machine learning process includes 4 main stages:
Illustrating the Machine Learning Process.
Define your project goals. What do you want to find out? Do you have the data to analyze?
This is where you decide what kind of problem are you trying to solve e.g. model to classify emails as spam or not spam, model to classify tumor cells as malignant or benign, model to improve customer experience by routing calls into different categories so that calls can be answered by personnel with the right expertise, model to predict if a loan will charge off after the duration of the loan, model… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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