EDUCATION & TRAINING
# Introduction to Machine Learning: How We Arrive at Linear Regression
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About This Tutorial
Before we talk about Linear Regression, we first need to understand the bigger idea it belongs to Machine Learning. Machine Learning is the reason applications today can: recommend movies on Netflix, suggest products on Amazon, recognize faces on your phone, and even predict house prices or exam scores. But what exactly is Machine Learning? Machine Learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence where we teach computers to learn patterns from data instead of explicitly programming every rule.