{"id":3425,"date":"2023-08-31T10:59:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T10:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neuraldesigner.com\/blog\/what_is_machine_learning\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T13:45:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:45:30","slug":"what_is_machine_learning","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.neuraldesigner.com\/blog\/what_is_machine_learning\/","title":{"rendered":"What is machine learning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>Machine learning is present all around us. For example, when you use voice recognition or get product recommendations on your phone, you are using Machine Learning. Machine learning is a subfield of computer science and a branch of artificial intelligence that aims to develop techniques that enable computers to learn.This article explains what machine learning is, the types of machine learning, and its applications and benefits.<\/p>\n<p><b>Contents:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#Definition\">Definition<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Types\">Types<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Applications\">Applications<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Benefits\">Benefits<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Conclusions\">Conclusions<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--\n \t\n\n<li><a href=\"#Examples\">Examples<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n--><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"Definition\">\n<h2>Definition<\/h2>\n<p>Machine learning (ML) could be defined as the computer&#8217;s ability to learn how to do a specific task that humans usually perform without needing to be explicitly programmed.<\/p>\n<p>The computer learns by repeating the task repeatedly and improving the result each time until it can do it correctly. To achieve this, it leverages algorithms and statistical models to learn through patterns and inference. These ML algorithms are designed so that they learn and improve when they obtain new data.<\/p>\n<p>Machine learning techniques have proven to be a significant technological advancement, and nowadays, many companies are applying them to accelerate innovation, fuel new growth opportunities, and create efficiencies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neuraldesigner.com\/images\/ml.gif\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"Types\">\n<h2>Types<\/h2>\n<p>There are many machine learning algorithms, but the following are the two primary methods in use today.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#Supervised learning\">Supervised learning<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Unsupervised learning\">Unsupervised learning<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 id=\"Supervised learning\">Supervised learning<\/h4>\n<p>In supervised learning, the algorithm is trained with <b>labeled data<\/b>. Then this algorithm finds relationships between the given parameters and the labels. Once the algorithm is trained, it can predict the label for other data, so given all the required parameters, we can obtain a prediction for the label.<\/p>\n<p>An example would be an algorithm trained with different variables of certain houses (such as square meters, number of bedrooms, bathrooms, etc.) and their respective prices. With this algorithm, it would be possible to predict a house&#8217;s price given the required variables.<\/p>\n<p>The next table shows an example of a dataset of house prices:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\">date<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\">bedrooms<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\">bathrooms<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\">sqft_living<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\">sqft_lot<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\">price<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">02\/05\/2014 0:00<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">3<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">1.5<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">1340<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">7912<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8230;<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">313000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">02\/05\/2014 0:00<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">5<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">2.5<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">3650<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">9050<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8230;<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">2384000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">02\/05\/2014 0:00<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">3<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">2<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">1930<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">11947<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8230;<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">342000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">02\/05\/2014 0:00<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">3<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">2.25<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">2000<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">8030<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8230;<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">420000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">02\/05\/2014 0:00<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">4<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">2.5<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">1940<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">10500<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8230;<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">550000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8230;<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8230;<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8230;<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8230;<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8230;<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8230;<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>In the table, we can see the <b>label<\/b> variable in the last column, specifically the house price. All other columns are variables that are used to predict this price.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"Unsupervised learning\">Unsupervised learning<\/h4>\n<p>In unsupervised learning, there is no label.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"Applications\">\n<h2>Applications<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\n\n\n\n<section id=\"Examples\">\n\n\n<h2>Examples<\/h2>\n\n\n<\/section>\n\n --><\/p>\n<section id=\"Benefits\">\n<h2>Benefits<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"Conclusions\">\n<h2>Conclusions<\/h2>\n<p>As we have seen in this post, simple analytics are not enough to get actionable insights and improve business operations.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Advanced Analytics, you will not leave anything to chance. It includes a global vision from the past to the possible futures that can be given in your company.<\/p>\n<p>The data science and machine learning platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neuraldesigner.com\/\">Neural Designer<\/a>\u00a0contains many utilities to perform descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics easily.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neuraldesigner.com\/free-trial\">download<\/a> Neural Designer now and try it for free.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h2>Related posts:<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2688,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-3425","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-tutorials"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What is machine learning?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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