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Juliet Kiplimo
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*✅ Machine Learning Basics You Should Know 🤖📊*

What is Machine Learning?

Machine Learning = Is the process of teaching computers to learn patterns from data without explicit programming.

- Instead of rules → we give data → model learns patterns.

Types of Machine Learning:

✅ 1. Supervised Learning:

Where the Model learns from labeled data:

Examples:
✔ Predict house price
✔ Email spam detection

Common Algorithms:

  • Linear Regression
  • Logistic Regression
  • Decision Trees

✅ 2. Unsupervised Learning:

  • This is where your model finds patterns in unlabeled data:

Examples:
✔ Customer segmentation
✔ Grouping similar data

Common Algorithms:

  • K-Means Clustering
  • Hierarchical Clustering

✅ 3. Reinforcement Learning:

👉 Model learns through rewards and penalties

Example:
✔ Game-playing AI

ML Workflow:

👉 Step-by-step process:

1️⃣ Collect Data
2️⃣ Clean Data
3️⃣ Perform EDA
4️⃣ Split Data (Train/Test)
5️⃣ Train Model
6️⃣ Evaluate Model
7️⃣ Deploy Model

🔹 4. Train-Test Split

from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split

👉 Used to divide data into:
✔ Training data (80%)
✔ Testing data (20%)

6. Why is ML important?

✔ Automates decision-making
✔ Used in AI, recommendations, predictions
✔ Core of modern tech

Happy Learning:

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