Mathematics of

Machine Learning

Dr. David Raj Micheal

Assistant Professor

Division of Mathematics, SAS

Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai

  • What is a data?
  • What is machine learning?
  • Regression
  • Mathematics of Regression
  • Conclusion

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What is a Data?

Name Height (in cm) Weight (in kg)
Raja 172 68
Lakshmi 170 55
Elango 175 70
Karthick 165 65
Valli 168 54

What is a Data?

Data is a collection of facts, such as numbers, words, measurements, observations or just descriptions of things.

What is Machine Learning?

Name Height (in cm) Weight (in kg)
Raja 172 68
Lakshmi 170 55
Elango 175 70
Karthick 165 65
Valli 168 54
Ganesh 173 ??

What is Machine Learning?

Machine learning is the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed.

What is possible in Machine Learning?

  • Self-driving Google car
  • Traffic Alerts in Google Maps
  • Whether forecasting
  • Automatic Friend Tagging Suggestions in Facebook
  • Online recommendation offers such as those from Amazon and Netflix
  • Fraud detection
  • Virtual Personal Assistants (Speech detection, NLP, etc.,)

Life cycle of Machine Learning

Linear Regression and Predictions

In the rest of the slides, we will concentrate on the mathematics of one of the famous machine learning model called linear regression.

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Questions?

Mathematics of Machine Learning

By David Raj Micheal

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