MACHINE LEARNING

Machine learning is a field of study that looks at using computational algorithms to turn empirical data into usable models. The machine learning field grew out of traditional statistics and artificial intelligences communities. From the efforts of mega corporations such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, and so on, machine learning has become one of the hottest computational science topics in the last decade. Through their business processes immense amounts of data have been and will be collected. This has provided an opportunity to re-invigorate the statistical and computational approaches to autogenerate useful models from data.