Machine learning involves automatically identifying patterns in data to suggest future predictions about a task. The explosion of data in different fields, such as health and finance, and in sources such as social media, has made machine learning an increasingly core analytical competency, with many companies investing in data analytics and the world's major IT companies (such as Google, Facebook, and others) establishing machine learning labs.

The course will be delivered using the Python programming language and libraries, such as Scikit-Learn, in a?Jupyter?Notebook environment.