Supervisedmachinelearningisusedinawiderangeofsectors(suchasfinance,onlineadvertising,andanalytics)becauseitallowsyoutotrainyoursystemtomakepricingpredictions,campaignadjustments,customerrecommendations,andmuchmorewhilethesystemself-adjustsandmakesdecisionsonitsown.Asaresult,it'scrucialtoknowhowamachine"learns"underthehood.Thisbookwillguideyouthroughtheimplementationandnuancesofmanypopularsupervisedmachinelearningalgorithmswhilefacilitatingadeepunderstandingalongtheway.You’llembarkonthisjourneywithaquickoverviewandseehowsupervisedmachinelearningdiffersfromunsupervisedlearning.Next,weexploreparametricmodelssuchaslinearandlogisticregression,non-parametricmethodssuchasdecisiontrees,andvariousclusteringtechniquestofacilitatedecision-makingandpredictions.Asweproceed,you'llworkhands-onwithrecommendersystems,whicharewidelyusedbyonlinecompaniestoincreaseuserinteractionandenrichshoppingpotential.Finally,you’llwrapupwithabriefforayintoneuralnetworksandtransferlearning.Bytheendofthisbook,you’llbeequippedwithhands-ontechniquesandwillhavegainedthepracticalknow-howyouneedtoquicklyandpowerfullyapplyalgorithmstonewproblems.