Machine Learning is undeniably one of the most strong and popular innovations in the world today. More significantly, we are far from being able to see its full potential. There’s no question that for the near future, it will continue to make headlines. This article is intended as an introduction to the principles of machine learning, discussing all the basic ideas without being too high level.

Machine learning is a method for turning knowledge into facts. There has been an explosion in data in the last 50 years. Until we study it and locate the patterns concealed within, this mass of data is useless. Machine learning approaches are used to find the useful underlying patterns automatically inside complex knowledge that we would otherwise fail to discover. It is possible to use hidden patterns and information about a problem to forecast future events and carry out all sorts of nuanced decision-making.