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What Is Machine Learning? Types, Concepts, and Uses

What Is Machine Learning?

Machine Learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence that enables computers to learn from data without being explicitly programmed.

Instead of following fixed rules, machine learning algorithms identify patterns from historical examples and use those patterns to make predictions on new data.

Machine Learning is generally divided into two major categories:

Supervised Learning

Supervised Learning uses labeled data, meaning the correct output is already known during training.

Examples:

  • Predicting house prices
  • Predicting stock prices
  • Email spam detection

Unsupervised Learning

Unsupervised Learning works with unlabeled data and attempts to discover hidden structures or relationships.

Examples:

  • Customer segmentation
  • Market basket analysis
  • Clustering problems

Since the California Housing Dataset contains historical house prices, this project falls under Supervised Learning.