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MachineLearningandReal-WorldApplications

The document discusses the significance of machine learning in handling the growing volume of data and its necessity for knowledge discovery. It outlines various machine learning methods, including supervised and unsupervised learning, and provides examples of algorithms used for classification, regression, and clustering. Additionally, it highlights real-world applications of machine learning across different sectors such as business, healthcare, and technology.

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MachineLearningandReal-WorldApplications

The document discusses the significance of machine learning in handling the growing volume of data and its necessity for knowledge discovery. It outlines various machine learning methods, including supervised and unsupervised learning, and provides examples of algorithms used for classification, regression, and clustering. Additionally, it highlights real-world applications of machine learning across different sectors such as business, healthcare, and technology.

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Machine Learning & Real-world Applications

Ajay Ramaseshan
MachinePulse.
Agenda

 Why Machine Learning?

 Supervised Vs Unsupervised learning.

 Machine learning methods.

 Real world applications.


Why Machine Learning?
Why Machine Learning?
 Volume of data collected growing day by day.
 Data production will be 44 times greater in 2020 than in 2009.
 Every day, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created, with 90
percent of the world's data created in the past two years.
 Very little data will ever be looked at by a human.
 Data is cheap and abundant (data warehouses, data marts);
knowledge is expensive and scarce.
 Knowledge Discovery is NEEDED to make sense and use of
data.
 Machine Learning is a technique in which computers learn
from data to obtain insight and help in knowledge discovery.
Overview of Machine Learning
Methods
 Supervised learning – class labels/ target variable known
Overview (Contd)
 Unsupervised learning – no class labels provided, need to
detect clusters of similar items in the data.
Parametric Vs Nonparametric

 Parametric Models:
Assumes prob. distribution for data,
and learn parameters from data

E.g. Naïve Bayes classifier, linear regression etc.

 Non-parametric Models:
No fixed number of parameters.

E.g. K-NN, histograms etc.


Generative Vs Discriminative
 Generative model – learns model for generating data, given
some hidden parameters.
 Learns the joint probability distribution p(x,y).
e.g. HMM, GMM, Naïve Bayes etc.

 Discriminative model – learns dependence of unobserved


variable y on observed variable x.
 Tries to model the separation between classes.
 Learns the conditional probability distribution p(y|x).
e.g. Logistic Regression, SVM, Neural networks etc.
Classification
 Classification – Supervised learning.

 Commonly used Methods for Classification –

Naïve Bayes
Decision tree
K nearest neighbors
Neural Networks
Support Vector Machines.
Regression
 Regression – Predicting an output variable given input
variables.

 Algorithms used –
Ordinary least squares
 Partial least squares
 Logistic Regression
 Stepwise Regression
 Support Vector Regression
Neural Networks
Clustering
 Clustering:
Group data into clusters using similarity measures.

 Algorithms:

K-means clustering
 Density based EM algorithm
 Hierarchical clustering.
 Spectral Clustering
Naïve Bayes
 Naïve Bayes classifier
Assumes conditional independence among features.

 P(xi,xj,xk|C) = P(xi|C)P(xj|C)P(xk|C)
K-Nearest Neighbors
 K-nearest neighbors:
Classifies the data point with the class of the k
nearest neighbors.

 Value of k decided using cross validation


Decision trees
 Leaves indicate classes.
 Non-terminal nodes – decisions on attribute values

 Algorithms used for decision tree learning

 C4.5
 ID3
 CART.
Neural Networks
 Artificial Neural Networks
Modeled after the
human brain

 Consists of an input layer,


many hidden layers, and an
output layer.

 Multi-Layer Perceptrons,
Radial Basis Functions,
Kohonen Networks etc.
Evaluation of Machine Learning
Methods
Validation methods

 Cross validation techniques


K-fold cross validation
Leave one out Cross Validation

 ROC curve (for binary classifier)

 Confusion Matrix
Real life applications
Some real life applications of machine learning:

 Recommender systems – suggesting similar people on


Facebook/LinkedIn, similar movies/ books etc. on Amazon,
 Business applications – Customer segmentation, Customer
retention, Targeted Marketing etc.
 Medical applications – Disease diagnosis,
 Banking – Credit card issue, fraud detection etc.
 Language translation, text to speech or vice versa.
Breast Cancer Dataset and k-NN
Wisconsin Breast Cancer dataset:
 Instances : 569
 Features : 32
 Class variable : malignant, or benign.
 Steps to classify using k-NN
 Load data into R
 Data normalization
 Split into training and test datasets
 Train model
 Evaluate model performance
Thank you!

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