Core Machine Learning

Linear Regression

Drawing the best straight line through scattered dots, like predicting rent from square footage

Logistic Regression

Is this email spam or not? A binary yes or no decision machine

Decision Trees

20 Questions game, each question splits the world in two

Random Forests

Ask 100 experts and take the majority vote

K-Nearest Neighbors

You are who your friends are, classify by your neighbors

Support Vector Machines

Find the widest road that separates two neighborhoods

Clustering and K-Means

Sorting a pile of mixed candies into groups by color and shape

Evaluating Your Models

Accuracy, Precision, Recall: judging a chef on taste, speed, and consistency

Overfitting and Underfitting

Memorizing the exam answers versus actually learning the subject

Feature Engineering

A chef choosing the right ingredients before cooking