Machine Learning Zoomcamp
Session #1.1
Introduction to
Machine Learning
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Imagine we have a car classifieds website
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I want to
sell my
car
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How can we help our user select the best price?
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What do we know about cars?
Price
$1.1k
$0.6k
$23k
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What do we know about cars?
Year Price
1995 $1.1k
1980 $0.6k
2016 $23k
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What do we know about cars?
Year Make Price
1995 GAZ $1.1k
1980 VAZ $0.6k
2016 BWM $23k
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What do we know about cars?
Year Make Mileage Price
1995 GAZ 200.000 $1.1k
1980 VAZ 100.000 $0.6k
2016 BWM 5.000 $23k
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What do we know about cars?
Year Make Mileage ... Price
1995 GAZ 200.000 ... $1.1k
1980 VAZ 100.000 ... $0.6k
2016 BWM 5.000 ... $23k
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Year Make Mileage ... Price
1995 GAZ 200.000 ... $1.1k
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1980 VAZ 100.000 ... $0.6k
2016 BWM 5.000 ... $23k
Using this information, an expert can determine the price
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DATA 👷 PATTERNS
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DATA 👷 PATTERNS
DATA ML PATTERNS
If an expert can, so can a model!
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Year Make Mileage ... Price
1995 GAZ 200.000 ... $1.1k
1980 VAZ 100.000 ... $0.6k
2016 BWM 5.000 ... $23k
“Features” “Target”
what we know about cars what we want to predict
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Year Make Mileage ... Price
1995 GAZ 200.000 ... $1.1k
1980 VAZ 100.000 ... $0.6k
2016 BWM 5.000 ... $23k
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Machine Learning
Year Make Mileage ... Price
1995 GAZ 200.000 ... $1.1k
1980 VAZ 100.000 ... $0.6k train
model
2016 BWM 5.000 ... $23k
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“Features” “Target”
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Using a model
Year Make Mileage ... Price Price
1995 GAZ 200.000 ... $1.1k $1.5k
1980 VAZ 100.000 ... $0.6k predict $0.4k
model
2016 BWM 5.000 ... $23k $20k
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“Features” “Target” “Predictions”
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Year 1995
Make GAZ
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Mileage 200.000
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Year 1995
Make GAZ
📱 model
Mileage 200.000
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Model training
Features
ML Model
Target
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Model training
Year Make Mileage ...
1995 GAZ 200.000 ...
1980 VAZ 100.000 ...
2016 BWM 5.000 ...
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ML Model
Price
$1.1k
$0.6k
$23k
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Predictions
Features Model Predictions
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Predictions
Year Make Mileage ... Price
1996 Volvo 100.000 ... $1.1k
1991 GAZ 50.000 ... Model $0.6k
2018 Audi 2.000 ... $23k
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