Machine learning is pretty undeniably the hottest topic in data science right now. It’s also the basic concept that underpins some of the most exciting areas in technology, like self-driving cars and predictive analytics. An article by dataquest.io in which you will be introduced to the fundamental concepts of machine learning. As you follow along, you’ll build your very first model from scratch to make predictions, while understanding exactly how your model works.
In it author explains:
- What is Machine Learning?
- Predicting Airbnb Rental Prices
- About Airbnb Data
- The K-nearest neighbors algorithm
- Euclidean distance
- Building a Basic KNN Model
- Evaluating Our Model
- Using RMSE to Evaluate Our Model
… and much more in this lengthy article. We learned what machine learning is, and walked through a very basic, manual “model” for predicting a house’s sale price. Great read!
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